IC 5110

IC 5110

IC 5110 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Indus about 409 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 160,000 ly, about 1.6 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,793 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
409 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
163k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
8,793 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 409 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5110 as it looked roughly 409 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.

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apart
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apart
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apart
IC 4953Barred spiral77 million ly
apart
IC 5017Lenticular78 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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