IC 5129
IC 5129
IC 5129 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Indus about 811 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 811 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
811 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 811 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5129 as it looked roughly 811 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 5091Spiral85 million ly
apartIC 5103Barred spiral130 million ly
apartIC 5087Barred spiral130 million ly
apartIC 5077Barred spiral150 million ly
apartIC 5016Barred spiral160 million ly
apartIC 5093Spiral180 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5103Barred spiral130 million ly
apartIC 5087Barred spiral130 million ly
apartIC 5077Barred spiral150 million ly
apartIC 5016Barred spiral160 million ly
apartIC 5093Spiral180 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).