IC 5211
IC 5211
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
345 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 345 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5211 as it looked roughly 345 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 5210Elliptical980,000 ly
apartNGC 7301Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7308Elliptical45 million ly
apartNGC 7214Barred spiral59 million ly
apartIC 1453Spiral60 million ly
apartIC 1456Galaxy62 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7301Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7308Elliptical45 million ly
apartNGC 7214Barred spiral59 million ly
apartIC 1453Spiral60 million ly
apartIC 1456Galaxy62 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).