IC 3008
IC 3008
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
325 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 325 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3008 as it looked roughly 325 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 3029Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 3093Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3996Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 4126Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 4082Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 2990Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3093Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3996Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 4126Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 4082Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 2990Barred spiral17 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).