IC 5048
IC 5048
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
628 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 628 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5048 as it looked roughly 628 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 5051Spiral6.6 million ly
apartIC 5075Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 5093Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 5099Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 5066Spiral56 million ly
apartIC 4990Barred spiral64 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5075Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 5093Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 5099Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 5066Spiral56 million ly
apartIC 4990Barred spiral64 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).