IC 5224
IC 5224
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
83 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 83 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5224 as it looked roughly 83 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 5240Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apartNGC 7213Spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 7233Lenticular6.5 million ly
apartNGC 7232Lenticular7.0 million ly
apartIC 5267Lenticular8.5 million ly
apartNGC 7412Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7213Spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 7233Lenticular6.5 million ly
apartNGC 7232Lenticular7.0 million ly
apartIC 5267Lenticular8.5 million ly
apartNGC 7412Barred spiral8.7 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).