IC 5367
IC 5367
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
492 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
16.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 492 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5367 as it looked roughly 492 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 5341Elliptical57 million ly
apartIC 5346Galaxy59 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical62 million ly
apartIC 5381Spiral66 million ly
apartNGC 7718Spiral70 million ly
apartIC 5347Galaxy71 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5346Galaxy59 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical62 million ly
apartIC 5381Spiral66 million ly
apartNGC 7718Spiral70 million ly
apartIC 5347Galaxy71 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).