IC 5065
IC 5065
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
457 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
199k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 457 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5065 as it looked roughly 457 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
NGC 7035ALenticular64 million ly
apartNGC 6999Lenticular70 million ly
apartNGC 7016Elliptical81 million ly
apartNGC 7030Barred spiral90 million ly
apartNGC 7019Barred spiral91 million ly
apartIC 5088Lenticular100 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6999Lenticular70 million ly
apartNGC 7016Elliptical81 million ly
apartNGC 7030Barred spiral90 million ly
apartNGC 7019Barred spiral91 million ly
apartIC 5088Lenticular100 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).