IC 5020
IC 5020
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
145 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 145 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5020 as it looked roughly 145 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
NGC 6923Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6925Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4999Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 5005Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 5007Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 5003Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6925Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4999Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 5005Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 5007Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 5003Barred spiral21 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).