IC 3847
IC 3847
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
312 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
27k ly
across
17.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 312 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3847 as it looked roughly 312 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 3918Spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 3736Spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 4039Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 3734Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3715Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 4685Elliptical16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3736Spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 4039Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 3734Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3715Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 4685Elliptical16 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).