IC 5141
IC 5141
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
212 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 212 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5141 as it looked roughly 212 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 5188Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5187Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 5203Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 5220Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 5074Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 5125Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5187Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 5203Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 5220Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 5074Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 5125Barred spiral31 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).