IC 5072
IC 5072
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
131 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
31k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 131 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5072 as it looked roughly 131 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 5069Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apartIC 5026Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7032Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 5071Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6920Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 6943Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5026Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7032Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 5071Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6920Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 6943Spiral19 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).