IC 5176
IC 5176
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
81 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 81 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5176 as it looked roughly 81 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 7059Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7205Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5028Irregular14 million ly
apartNGC 7697Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1532Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7661Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7205Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5028Irregular14 million ly
apartNGC 7697Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1532Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7661Barred spiral18 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).