IC 5022
IC 5022
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
548 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 548 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5022 as it looked roughly 548 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 5085Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 5073Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 5066Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 5108Barred spiral54 million ly
apartIC 4928Galaxy65 million ly
apartIC 4903Barred spiral66 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5073Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 5066Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 5108Barred spiral54 million ly
apartIC 4928Galaxy65 million ly
apartIC 4903Barred spiral66 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).