IC 5091
IC 5091
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
800 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 800 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5091 as it looked roughly 800 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 5103Barred spiral54 million ly
apartIC 5087Barred spiral64 million ly
apartIC 5129Spiral85 million ly
apartIC 5077Barred spiral89 million ly
apartIC 5016Barred spiral100 million ly
apartIC 5093Spiral150 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5087Barred spiral64 million ly
apartIC 5129Spiral85 million ly
apartIC 5077Barred spiral89 million ly
apartIC 5016Barred spiral100 million ly
apartIC 5093Spiral150 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).