IC 3134
IC 3134
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
205 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 205 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3134 as it looked roughly 205 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
NGC 4334Spiral8.7 million ly
apartIC 3040Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4296Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 4012Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 768Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 4496BBarred spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3040Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4296Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 4012Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 768Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 4496BBarred spiral22 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).