IC 3567

IC 3567

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
426 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 426 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3567 as it looked roughly 426 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 787Spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 3714Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
IC 3704Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
IC 3702Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
IC 3694Barred spiral38 million ly
apart
IC 3174Spiral43 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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