IC 5115
IC 5115
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
507 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 507 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5115 as it looked roughly 507 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 1398Spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 7159Galaxy57 million ly
apartIC 1375Elliptical80 million ly
apartIC 5172Barred spiral84 million ly
apartIC 1399Galaxy87 million ly
apartIC 1374Barred spiral91 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7159Galaxy57 million ly
apartIC 1375Elliptical80 million ly
apartIC 5172Barred spiral84 million ly
apartIC 1399Galaxy87 million ly
apartIC 1374Barred spiral91 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).