IC 5073
IC 5073
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
561 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
193k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 561 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5073 as it looked roughly 561 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 5066Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 5085Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 5022Spiral41 million ly
apartIC 5108Barred spiral44 million ly
apartIC 5099Spiral46 million ly
apartIC 4903Barred spiral55 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5085Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 5022Spiral41 million ly
apartIC 5108Barred spiral44 million ly
apartIC 5099Spiral46 million ly
apartIC 4903Barred spiral55 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).