IC 5170
IC 5170
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
73 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 73 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5170 as it looked roughly 73 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 7213Spiral9.5 million ly
apartIC 5162Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 5224Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5240Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5267Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 7412Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5162Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 5224Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5240Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5267Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 7412Barred spiral14 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).