IC 5325

IC 5325

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
71 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
11.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 71 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5325 as it looked roughly 71 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 7632Lenticular2.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7582Barred spiral4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7590Barred spiral5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7531Spiral5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 7552Spiral6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7496ABarred spiral6.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

← all galaxies