IC 5093
IC 5093
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
651 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
150k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 651 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5093 as it looked roughly 651 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 5048Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 5075Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 5051Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 5099Spiral50 million ly
apartIC 5077Barred spiral79 million ly
apartIC 5016Barred spiral80 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5075Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 5051Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 5099Spiral50 million ly
apartIC 5077Barred spiral79 million ly
apartIC 5016Barred spiral80 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).