IC 5023
IC 5023
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
150 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 150 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5023 as it looked roughly 150 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
NGC 6943Spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 6844Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5092Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4934Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5084Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7032Spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6844Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5092Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4934Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5084Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7032Spiral14 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).