IC 5016
IC 5016
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
714 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
131k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 714 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5016 as it looked roughly 714 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 5077Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 5087Barred spiral53 million ly
apartIC 5093Spiral80 million ly
apartIC 5048Barred spiral88 million ly
apartIC 5051Spiral95 million ly
apartIC 5091Spiral100 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5087Barred spiral53 million ly
apartIC 5093Spiral80 million ly
apartIC 5048Barred spiral88 million ly
apartIC 5051Spiral95 million ly
apartIC 5091Spiral100 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).