IC 5271
IC 5271
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
80 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
11.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 80 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5271 as it looked roughly 80 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 1459Elliptical5.5 million ly
apartNGC 7421Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 7410Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apartNGC 7507Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 7513Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7404Elliptical11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7421Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 7410Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apartNGC 7507Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 7513Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7404Elliptical11 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).