IC 5250A
IC 5250A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
146 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
11.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 146 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5250A as it looked roughly 146 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 5246Spiral2.7 million ly
apartIC 5266Barred spiral3.9 million ly
apartIC 5250BLenticular4.2 million ly
apartNGC 7417Barred spiral5.1 million ly
apartIC 5222Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartIC 5272Spiral5.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5266Barred spiral3.9 million ly
apartIC 5250BLenticular4.2 million ly
apartNGC 7417Barred spiral5.1 million ly
apartIC 5222Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartIC 5272Spiral5.9 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).