IC 5223
IC 5223
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
362 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
69k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 362 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5223 as it looked roughly 362 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 7362Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 7305Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 7312Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 7374BElliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 7348Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 7390Galaxy39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7305Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 7312Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 7374BElliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 7348Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 7390Galaxy39 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).