IC 5002
IC 5002
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
215 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
84k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 215 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5002 as it looked roughly 215 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 5001Lenticular210,000 ly
apartIC 4963Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 6867Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6935Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4978Galaxy13 million ly
apartIC 4980Lenticular13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4963Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 6867Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6935Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4978Galaxy13 million ly
apartIC 4980Lenticular13 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).