IC 3848 NED02
IC 3848 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
211k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 3848 NED02 as it looked roughly 1.1 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 4014Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 3728Barred spiral49 million ly
apartIC 3929Barred spiral52 million ly
apartIC 3905 NED02Barred spiral56 million ly
apartIC 3744Barred spiral59 million ly
apartIC 4080 NED01Spiral66 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3728Barred spiral49 million ly
apartIC 3929Barred spiral52 million ly
apartIC 3905 NED02Barred spiral56 million ly
apartIC 3744Barred spiral59 million ly
apartIC 4080 NED01Spiral66 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).