IC 5050
IC 5050
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
382 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
148k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 382 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5050 as it looked roughly 382 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 1357Barred spiral48 million ly
apartNGC 6957Spiral55 million ly
apartNGC 6955Spiral55 million ly
apartIC 1344Spiral58 million ly
apartIC 1372Spiral58 million ly
apartNGC 7010Elliptical59 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6957Spiral55 million ly
apartNGC 6955Spiral55 million ly
apartIC 1344Spiral58 million ly
apartIC 1372Spiral58 million ly
apartNGC 7010Elliptical59 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).