IC 3043

IC 3043

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
448 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 448 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3043 as it looked roughly 448 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 3037Barred spiral1.6 million ly
apart
IC 3012Spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 3174Spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 2991Spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 4083Lenticular25 million ly
apart
IC 748Elliptical36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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