IC 3484

IC 3484

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
373 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 373 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3484 as it looked roughly 373 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 3615Spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 803 NED02Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 3489Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
IC 3280Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
IC 3235Spiral34 million ly
apart
NGC 4186Spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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