IC 5280
IC 5280
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
389 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
149k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 389 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5280 as it looked roughly 389 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 5286Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 5288Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 7622Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 5232Spiral34 million ly
apartIC 5238Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 5382Barred spiral48 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5288Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 7622Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 5232Spiral34 million ly
apartIC 5238Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 5382Barred spiral48 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).