IC 5149
IC 5149
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5149 as it looked roughly 255 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 5139Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 7220Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 5178Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1435Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 7225Lenticular30 million ly
apartIC 5168Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7220Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 5178Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1435Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 7225Lenticular30 million ly
apartIC 5168Barred spiral31 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).