IC 5125
IC 5125
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
228 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 228 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5125 as it looked roughly 228 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 7124Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7118Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 6982Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 7038Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6984Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7014Elliptical31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7118Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 6982Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 7038Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6984Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7014Elliptical31 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).