IC 3151
IC 3151
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
346 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 346 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3151 as it looked roughly 346 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 3170Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 3150Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 3107Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4410CLenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 4410ASpiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4410BLenticular13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3150Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 3107Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4410CLenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 4410ASpiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4410BLenticular13 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).