IC 5077
IC 5077
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
720 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 720 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5077 as it looked roughly 720 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 5016Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 5087Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 5093Spiral79 million ly
apartIC 5091Spiral89 million ly
apartIC 5048Barred spiral96 million ly
apartIC 5051Spiral100 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5087Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 5093Spiral79 million ly
apartIC 5091Spiral89 million ly
apartIC 5048Barred spiral96 million ly
apartIC 5051Spiral100 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).