IC 3020
IC 3020
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
971 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 971 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3020 as it looked roughly 971 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 3121 NED01Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 3038Spiral57 million ly
apartIC 3078Barred spiral60 million ly
apartIC 3017Barred spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 4164Elliptical68 million ly
apartIC 3187Barred spiral70 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3038Spiral57 million ly
apartIC 3078Barred spiral60 million ly
apartIC 3017Barred spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 4164Elliptical68 million ly
apartIC 3187Barred spiral70 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).