IC 3958
IC 3958
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
158k ly
across
16.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 3958 as it looked roughly 1.0 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 3944Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4096Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4099Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 3994Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4014Barred spiral43 million ly
apartIC 3817Barred spiral53 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4096Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4099Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 3994Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4014Barred spiral43 million ly
apartIC 3817Barred spiral53 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).