IC 5160
IC 5160
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
418 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 418 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5160 as it looked roughly 418 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 7190Lenticular5.0 million ly
apartIC 1414Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 5144Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 7138Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 7194Elliptical40 million ly
apartNGC 7132Spiral42 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1414Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 5144Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 7138Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 7194Elliptical40 million ly
apartNGC 7132Spiral42 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).