IC 5287
IC 5287
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
453 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
120k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 453 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5287 as it looked roughly 453 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 7603Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1466Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1468Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 7629Lenticular36 million ly
apartNGC 7589Spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 7642Spiral44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1466Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1468Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 7629Lenticular36 million ly
apartNGC 7589Spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 7642Spiral44 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).