IC 5278
IC 5278
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
161 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 161 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5278 as it looked roughly 161 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 7600Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7443Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 7576Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 7585Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 7393Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7450Lenticular18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7443Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 7576Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 7585Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 7393Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7450Lenticular18 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).