IC 5370
IC 5370
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
484 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 484 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5370 as it looked roughly 484 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 5372Galaxy5.9 million ly
apartIC 5369Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 5373Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 5371Galaxy47 million ly
apartIC 5341Elliptical66 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical72 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5369Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 5373Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 5371Galaxy47 million ly
apartIC 5341Elliptical66 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical72 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).