IC 5032

IC 5032

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
476 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
180k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 476 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5032 as it looked roughly 476 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 5055Galaxy21 million ly
apart
IC 5031Galaxy22 million ly
apart
IC 5010Spiral26 million ly
apart
IC 5094Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 4993Spiral52 million ly
apart
IC 4921Lenticular57 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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