IC 3985
IC 3985
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
545 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 545 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3985 as it looked roughly 545 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
IC 3882Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 3880Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 864Barred spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 4752Barred spiral61 million ly
apartIC 3659Barred spiral68 million ly
apartIC 4172Barred spiral69 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3880Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 864Barred spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 4752Barred spiral61 million ly
apartIC 3659Barred spiral68 million ly
apartIC 4172Barred spiral69 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).