IC 3055 NED01
IC 3055 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
890 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
135k ly
across
17.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 890 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3055 NED01 as it looked roughly 890 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 3055 NED03Barred spiral1.1 million ly
apartIC 3016Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 4164Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 3196Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 3034Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 3078Barred spiral36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3016Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 4164Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 3196Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 3034Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 3078Barred spiral36 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).