IC 5026
IC 5026
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Scd
128 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 128 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5026 as it looked roughly 128 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 6920Lenticular7.0 million ly
apartIC 5072Galaxy12 million ly
apartNGC 7095Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5069Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7098Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6438Lenticular21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5072Galaxy12 million ly
apartNGC 7095Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5069Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7098Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6438Lenticular21 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).