IC 3040
IC 3040
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · S?
211 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
47k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 211 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3040 as it looked roughly 211 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 3134Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 4334Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 4012Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 768Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3863Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 737Lenticular28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4334Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 4012Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 768Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3863Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 737Lenticular28 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).