IC 5295
IC 5295
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
378 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 378 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5295 as it looked roughly 378 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 5297Galaxy990,000 ly
apartIC 5296Barred spiral1.7 million ly
apartIC 5298Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartNGC 7527Elliptical6.8 million ly
apartNGC 7548Lenticular7.9 million ly
apartIC 5293Galaxy9.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5296Barred spiral1.7 million ly
apartIC 5298Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartNGC 7527Elliptical6.8 million ly
apartNGC 7548Lenticular7.9 million ly
apartIC 5293Galaxy9.3 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).