IC 3731
IC 3731
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
556 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 556 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3731 as it looked roughly 556 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
NGC 4752Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 840Spiral63 million ly
apartIC 3128ASpiral63 million ly
apartIC 815Elliptical64 million ly
apartIC 3574Elliptical65 million ly
apartIC 3244Spiral68 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 840Spiral63 million ly
apartIC 3128ASpiral63 million ly
apartIC 815Elliptical64 million ly
apartIC 3574Elliptical65 million ly
apartIC 3244Spiral68 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).