IC 5142
IC 5142
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
254 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 254 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5142 as it looked roughly 254 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 5147Spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 5107Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 5100Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 5101Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 5185Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 5208Lenticular30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5107Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 5100Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 5101Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 5185Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 5208Lenticular30 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).