IC 5001
IC 5001
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
215 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 215 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5001 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
IC 5002Lenticular210,000 ly
apartIC 4963Spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 6867Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6935Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4978Galaxy12 million ly
apartIC 4980Lenticular13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4963Spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 6867Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6935Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4978Galaxy12 million ly
apartIC 4980Lenticular13 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).