IC 5063
IC 5063
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
157 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 157 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5063 as it looked roughly 157 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 5064Barred spiral500,000 ly
apartIC 5036Spiral4.5 million ly
apartIC 5059Spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 6942Lenticular9.8 million ly
apartNGC 6948Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 5084Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5036Spiral4.5 million ly
apartIC 5059Spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 6942Lenticular9.8 million ly
apartNGC 6948Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 5084Barred spiral20 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).