IC 3147 NED01
IC 3147 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · S?
363 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 363 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3147 NED01 as it looked roughly 363 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 3127Spiral3.0 million ly
apartIC 3147 NED02Lenticular5.3 million ly
apartIC 3149Lenticular5.5 million ly
apartIC 3159Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartIC 775Elliptical6.2 million ly
apartIC 3233Spiral6.7 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3147 NED02Lenticular5.3 million ly
apartIC 3149Lenticular5.5 million ly
apartIC 3159Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartIC 775Elliptical6.2 million ly
apartIC 3233Spiral6.7 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).