IC 5239
IC 5239
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
393k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 5239 as it looked roughly 1.0 billion 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 6902ABarred spiral450 million ly
apartIC 1430Galaxy460 million ly
apartIC 1431Spiral460 million ly
apartNGC 7355Barred spiral460 million ly
apartNGC 77Elliptical480 million ly
apartNGC 7322Lenticular480 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1430Galaxy460 million ly
apartIC 1431Spiral460 million ly
apartNGC 7355Barred spiral460 million ly
apartNGC 77Elliptical480 million ly
apartNGC 7322Lenticular480 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).