IC 3425
IC 3425
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
340 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 340 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3425 as it looked roughly 340 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 3481Elliptical6.3 million ly
apartIC 3467Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 3608Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4410CLenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 4410ASpiral15 million ly
apartIC 3209Spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3467Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 3608Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4410CLenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 4410ASpiral15 million ly
apartIC 3209Spiral17 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).