IC 5116
IC 5116
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
170 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 170 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5116 as it looked roughly 170 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 7123Spiral5.4 million ly
apartIC 5106Elliptical9.3 million ly
apartIC 5158Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7216Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 6932Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 5024Galaxy15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5106Elliptical9.3 million ly
apartIC 5158Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7216Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 6932Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 5024Galaxy15 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).