IC 5054
IC 5054
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5054 as it looked roughly 200 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 5060Spiral2.4 million ly
apartIC 5053Spiral3.8 million ly
apartIC 4992Barred spiral9.5 million ly
apartIC 4985Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4971Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4929Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5053Spiral3.8 million ly
apartIC 4992Barred spiral9.5 million ly
apartIC 4985Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4971Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4929Barred spiral14 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).