IC 5334
IC 5334
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
104 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 104 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5334 as it looked roughly 104 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 7695Spiral3.4 million ly
apartNGC 7694Irregular4.2 million ly
apartNGC 7606Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7721Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7710Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 7693Lenticular17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7694Irregular4.2 million ly
apartNGC 7606Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7721Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7710Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 7693Lenticular17 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).