IC 5019
IC 5019
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
560 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
251k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 560 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5019 as it looked roughly 560 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 5049BElliptical42 million ly
apartNGC 6998Elliptical100 million ly
apartNGC 6999Lenticular110 million ly
apartIC 5065Lenticular120 million ly
apartNGC 7016Elliptical130 million ly
apartNGC 7019Barred spiral140 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6998Elliptical100 million ly
apartNGC 6999Lenticular110 million ly
apartIC 5065Lenticular120 million ly
apartNGC 7016Elliptical130 million ly
apartNGC 7019Barred spiral140 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).