IC 5154
IC 5154
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sm
145 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
36k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 145 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5154 as it looked roughly 145 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 7191Spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 7219Spiral7.3 million ly
apartIC 5222Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 7096Spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 5182Spiral8.9 million ly
apartIC 5173ABarred spiral9.0 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7219Spiral7.3 million ly
apartIC 5222Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 7096Spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 5182Spiral8.9 million ly
apartIC 5173ABarred spiral9.0 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).