IC 5128
IC 5128
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
221 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 221 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5128 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
NGC 7130Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7060Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7072Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7087Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7072ASpiral25 million ly
apartIC 5157Elliptical25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7060Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7072Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7087Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7072ASpiral25 million ly
apartIC 5157Elliptical25 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).