IC 5090
IC 5090
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
433 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 433 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5090 as it looked roughly 433 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 5089Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1371Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 7069Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 1381Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1383Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 1388Lenticular37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1371Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 7069Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 1381Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1383Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 1388Lenticular37 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).