IC 5075
IC 5075
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
617 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
195k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 617 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5075 as it looked roughly 617 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 5051Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5048Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 5099Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 5093Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 5066Spiral45 million ly
apartIC 5073Barred spiral56 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5048Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 5099Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 5093Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 5066Spiral45 million ly
apartIC 5073Barred spiral56 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).