IC 5310
IC 5310
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
363 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
53k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 363 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5310 as it looked roughly 363 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 7573Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7498Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7656Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7494Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 5345Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 5343Spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7498Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7656Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7494Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 5345Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 5343Spiral32 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).