IC 5190

IC 5190

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
384 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 384 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5190 as it looked roughly 384 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 5197Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apart
IC 5238Spiral25 million ly
apart
IC 5110Spiral49 million ly
apart
NGC 7205ASpiral50 million ly
apart
IC 5280Spiral50 million ly
apart
NGC 7622Elliptical54 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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