IC 3908
IC 3908
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBcd
60 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
43k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 60 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3908 as it looked roughly 60 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 4781Spiral3.3 million ly
apartNGC 4742Elliptical3.4 million ly
apartNGC 4784Lenticular3.5 million ly
apartNGC 4790Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 4697Elliptical4.6 million ly
apartNGC 4699Spiral5.7 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4742Elliptical3.4 million ly
apartNGC 4784Lenticular3.5 million ly
apartNGC 4790Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 4697Elliptical4.6 million ly
apartNGC 4699Spiral5.7 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).