IC 5017
IC 5017
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
352 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 352 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5017 as it looked roughly 352 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 5037Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 5033Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 5012Barred spiral54 million ly
apartIC 4914Barred spiral55 million ly
apartIC 4923Lenticular55 million ly
apartIC 4909Barred spiral56 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5033Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 5012Barred spiral54 million ly
apartIC 4914Barred spiral55 million ly
apartIC 4923Lenticular55 million ly
apartIC 4909Barred spiral56 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).