IC 3754
IC 3754
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
304 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 304 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3754 as it looked roughly 304 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 3638Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 4518Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 4432Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 816Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 3255Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 4360BSpiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4518Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 4432Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 816Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 3255Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 4360BSpiral32 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).