IC 3773
IC 3773
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
51 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
29k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 51 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3773 as it looked roughly 51 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 3727Spiral880,000 ly
apartNGC 4660Elliptical1.2 million ly
apartIC 3775Spiral1.4 million ly
apartNGC 4638Elliptical2.4 million ly
apartNGC 4639Barred spiral2.9 million ly
apartNGC 4564Elliptical3.1 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4660Elliptical1.2 million ly
apartIC 3775Spiral1.4 million ly
apartNGC 4638Elliptical2.4 million ly
apartNGC 4639Barred spiral2.9 million ly
apartNGC 4564Elliptical3.1 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).