IC 3500
IC 3500
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
286 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
47k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 286 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3500 as it looked roughly 286 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 3442Elliptical4.4 million ly
apartIC 3432Spiral6.3 million ly
apartIC 3382Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 4611Barred spiral9.3 million ly
apartIC 792Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3137Spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3432Spiral6.3 million ly
apartIC 3382Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 4611Barred spiral9.3 million ly
apartIC 792Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3137Spiral23 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).