IC 3994
IC 3994
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
17.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 3994 as it looked roughly 1.0 billion 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 3958Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 3944Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 4096Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 4099Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 3899Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 3817Barred spiral43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3944Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 4096Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 4099Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 3899Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 3817Barred spiral43 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).