IC 5226
IC 5226
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
268 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
155k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 268 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5226 as it looked roughly 268 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 7313Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apartIC 5178Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 7220Lenticular32 million ly
apartIC 1435Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 5149Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 7225Lenticular44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5178Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 7220Lenticular32 million ly
apartIC 1435Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 5149Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 7225Lenticular44 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).