IC 3825
IC 3825
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
167 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
29k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 167 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3825 as it looked roughly 167 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 3799Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apartIC 3831Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 4770Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 4829Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 4776Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 4777Spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3831Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 4770Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 4829Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 4776Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 4777Spiral17 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).