IC 5088
IC 5088
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
531 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
212k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 531 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5088 as it looked roughly 531 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 7019Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7016Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 6999Lenticular51 million ly
apartIC 1386Elliptical57 million ly
apartNGC 6998Elliptical60 million ly
apartIC 1328Spiral68 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7016Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 6999Lenticular51 million ly
apartIC 1386Elliptical57 million ly
apartNGC 6998Elliptical60 million ly
apartIC 1328Spiral68 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).