IC 5122
IC 5122
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
476 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 476 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5122 as it looked roughly 476 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 5124Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 7103Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 1393Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 7104Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 1386Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 7035ALenticular65 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7103Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 1393Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 7104Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 1386Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 7035ALenticular65 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).