IC 5071
IC 5071
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
146 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
134k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 146 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5071 as it looked roughly 146 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 4964Spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 6943Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7032Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5069Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 5072Galaxy15 million ly
apartIC 5023Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6943Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7032Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5069Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 5072Galaxy15 million ly
apartIC 5023Spiral15 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).