IC 5266
IC 5266
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
148 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 148 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5266 as it looked roughly 148 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 7417Barred spiral1.7 million ly
apartIC 5272Spiral2.3 million ly
apartIC 5246Spiral3.2 million ly
apartIC 5250BLenticular3.5 million ly
apartIC 5250AElliptical3.9 million ly
apartIC 5245Lenticular6.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5272Spiral2.3 million ly
apartIC 5246Spiral3.2 million ly
apartIC 5250BLenticular3.5 million ly
apartIC 5250AElliptical3.9 million ly
apartIC 5245Lenticular6.3 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).