IC 5074
IC 5074
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
221 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
42k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 221 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5074 as it looked roughly 221 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 5101Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 5100Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6860Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 5107Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 5042Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 5038Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5100Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6860Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 5107Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 5042Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 5038Barred spiral29 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).