IC 3918
IC 3918
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
310 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 310 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3918 as it looked roughly 310 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 3847Spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 4039Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 3736Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3734Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 3784Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 3692Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4039Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 3736Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3734Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 3784Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 3692Spiral20 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).