IC 3340
IC 3340
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
628 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
128k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 628 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3340 as it looked roughly 628 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 3378Spiral7.8 million ly
apartIC 3379Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 3327Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 3505Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 3528Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 3603Elliptical38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3379Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 3327Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 3505Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 3528Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 3603Elliptical38 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).