IC 3150
IC 3150
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
343 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
36k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 343 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3150 as it looked roughly 343 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 3271Spiral9.2 million ly
apartIC 3151Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 789Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 3170Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4410CLenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 4410ASpiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3151Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 789Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 3170Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4410CLenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 4410ASpiral15 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).