IC 5172
IC 5172
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
500 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 500 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5172 as it looked roughly 500 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 7159Galaxy30 million ly
apartNGC 7272Barred spiral50 million ly
apartNGC 7291Lenticular55 million ly
apartIC 1398Spiral59 million ly
apartNGC 7206Lenticular68 million ly
apartNGC 7346Elliptical82 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7272Barred spiral50 million ly
apartNGC 7291Lenticular55 million ly
apartIC 1398Spiral59 million ly
apartNGC 7206Lenticular68 million ly
apartNGC 7346Elliptical82 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).