IC 5258
IC 5258
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
362 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 362 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5258 as it looked roughly 362 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 7436ABarred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7433Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 5231Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 5243Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 7436BElliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 7466Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7433Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 5231Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 5243Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 7436BElliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 7466Barred spiral31 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).