IC 5173B
IC 5173B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
148 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
30k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 148 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5173B as it looked roughly 148 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 5173ABarred spiral550,000 ly
apartIC 5154Spiral9.2 million ly
apartIC 5222Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7329Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 5245Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 7216Elliptical14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5154Spiral9.2 million ly
apartIC 5222Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7329Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 5245Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 7216Elliptical14 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).