IC 5267
IC 5267
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
80 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
129k ly
across
10.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 80 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5267 as it looked roughly 80 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 7412Barred spiral1.1 million ly
apartNGC 7496Barred spiral4.1 million ly
apartIC 5240Barred spiral5.1 million ly
apartNGC 7410Barred spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 7496ABarred spiral6.2 million ly
apartNGC 7599Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7496Barred spiral4.1 million ly
apartIC 5240Barred spiral5.1 million ly
apartNGC 7410Barred spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 7496ABarred spiral6.2 million ly
apartNGC 7599Barred spiral6.3 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).