IC 5185
IC 5185
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
274 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
46k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 274 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5185 as it looked roughly 274 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 5208Lenticular8.0 million ly
apartIC 5147Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 5142Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 5107Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 5100Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 5101Barred spiral42 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5147Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 5142Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 5107Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 5100Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 5101Barred spiral42 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).