IC 5010
IC 5010
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
495 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 495 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5010 as it looked roughly 495 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 5032Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 4993Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 4921Lenticular39 million ly
apartIC 5031Galaxy45 million ly
apartIC 5094Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 5055Galaxy47 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4993Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 4921Lenticular39 million ly
apartIC 5031Galaxy45 million ly
apartIC 5094Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 5055Galaxy47 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).