IC 3060
IC 3060
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
272 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 272 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3060 as it looked roughly 272 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 771Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apartIC 3188Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3069Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3175Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3156Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 4307ASpiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3188Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3069Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3175Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3156Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 4307ASpiral19 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).