IC 5078
IC 5078
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
69 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 69 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5078 as it looked roughly 69 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
NGC 7180Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 7218Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6835Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6836Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7188Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6814Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7218Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6835Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6836Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7188Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6814Spiral26 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).