IC 5069
IC 5069
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
132 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 132 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5069 as it looked roughly 132 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 5072Galaxy3.1 million ly
apartNGC 7032Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5071Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 5026Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6943Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4964Spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7032Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5071Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 5026Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6943Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4964Spiral18 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).