IC 5049B
IC 5049B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
573 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
297k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 573 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5049B as it looked roughly 573 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 5019Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 6998Elliptical110 million ly
apartNGC 6999Lenticular110 million ly
apartNGC 7016Elliptical140 million ly
apartIC 5065Lenticular140 million ly
apartNGC 7019Barred spiral150 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6998Elliptical110 million ly
apartNGC 6999Lenticular110 million ly
apartNGC 7016Elliptical140 million ly
apartIC 5065Lenticular140 million ly
apartNGC 7019Barred spiral150 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).