IC 3744
IC 3744
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
213k ly
across
16.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 3744 as it looked roughly 1.0 billion 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 3848 NED02Elliptical59 million ly
apartIC 3899Barred spiral60 million ly
apartIC 3728Barred spiral75 million ly
apartIC 3788Barred spiral81 million ly
apartIC 3817Barred spiral81 million ly
apartIC 4014Barred spiral84 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3899Barred spiral60 million ly
apartIC 3728Barred spiral75 million ly
apartIC 3788Barred spiral81 million ly
apartIC 3817Barred spiral81 million ly
apartIC 4014Barred spiral84 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).