IC 5250B
IC 5250B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
150 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 150 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5250B as it looked roughly 150 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 5246Spiral1.6 million ly
apartNGC 7417Barred spiral2.9 million ly
apartIC 5272Spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 5266Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apartIC 5245Lenticular3.5 million ly
apartIC 5250AElliptical4.2 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7417Barred spiral2.9 million ly
apartIC 5272Spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 5266Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apartIC 5245Lenticular3.5 million ly
apartIC 5250AElliptical4.2 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).