IC 5302
IC 5302
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
442 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
153k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 442 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5302 as it looked roughly 442 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 5277Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7733Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 5288Lenticular44 million ly
apartIC 5286Spiral45 million ly
apartIC 5382Barred spiral48 million ly
apartIC 5280Spiral54 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7733Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 5288Lenticular44 million ly
apartIC 5286Spiral45 million ly
apartIC 5382Barred spiral48 million ly
apartIC 5280Spiral54 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).