IC 3896
IC 3896
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
99 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
87k ly
across
11.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 99 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3896 as it looked roughly 99 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 4835Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 4988Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 4751Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 4730Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 4645BLenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 4219Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4988Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 4751Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 4730Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 4645BLenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 4219Barred spiral17 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).