IC 5025
IC 5025
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
306 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
147k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 306 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5025 as it looked roughly 306 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 5040Spiral3.1 million ly
apartIC 4912Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4864Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 6557Lenticular62 million ly
apartIC 5130Barred spiral67 million ly
apartIC 4747Spiral68 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4912Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4864Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 6557Lenticular62 million ly
apartIC 5130Barred spiral67 million ly
apartIC 4747Spiral68 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).