IC 5089
IC 5089
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
439 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 439 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5089 as it looked roughly 439 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 5090Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1371Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 7069Elliptical37 million ly
apartIC 1381Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 1383Barred spiral45 million ly
apartIC 1388Lenticular46 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1371Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 7069Elliptical37 million ly
apartIC 1381Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 1383Barred spiral45 million ly
apartIC 1388Lenticular46 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).