IC 3442
IC 3442
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
289 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 289 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3442 as it looked roughly 289 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 3500Barred spiral4.4 million ly
apartIC 3432Spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 3382Spiral9.4 million ly
apartIC 792Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4611Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 3137Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3432Spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 3382Spiral9.4 million ly
apartIC 792Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4611Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 3137Spiral20 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).