IC 5003
IC 5003
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
126 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
87k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 126 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5003 as it looked roughly 126 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 5007Spiral700,000 ly
apartNGC 6925Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartNGC 6923Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apartNGC 6958Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 5020Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 5005Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6925Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartNGC 6923Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apartNGC 6958Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 5020Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 5005Barred spiral23 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).