IC 5175
IC 5175
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
500 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
231k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 500 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5175 as it looked roughly 500 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 5174Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7297Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 7322Lenticular61 million ly
apartNGC 7178Spiral66 million ly
apartNGC 7382Spiral79 million ly
apartNGC 7299Spiral84 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7297Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 7322Lenticular61 million ly
apartNGC 7178Spiral66 million ly
apartNGC 7382Spiral79 million ly
apartNGC 7299Spiral84 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).