IC 3892
IC 3892
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
215 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 215 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3892 as it looked roughly 215 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
NGC 4868Spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 4914Elliptical8.5 million ly
apartNGC 4846Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3795Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 3808Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3862Spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4914Elliptical8.5 million ly
apartNGC 4846Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3795Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 3808Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3862Spiral17 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).