IC 5168
IC 5168
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
225 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 225 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5168 as it looked roughly 225 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 7225Lenticular8.4 million ly
apartNGC 7252Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 7201Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7284Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7221Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 7229Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7252Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 7201Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7284Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7221Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 7229Spiral25 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).