IC 5158
IC 5158
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBm
170 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 170 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5158 as it looked roughly 170 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 7216Elliptical8.6 million ly
apartNGC 7123Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 5116Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5252Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 5244Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 5227Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7123Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 5116Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5252Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 5244Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 5227Barred spiral17 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).