IC 3603

IC 3603

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
645 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 645 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3603 as it looked roughly 645 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 3528Spiral10 million ly
apart
IC 3505Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 3613Lenticular22 million ly
apart
IC 3629Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
IC 3379Barred spiral36 million ly
apart
IC 3378Spiral36 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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