IC 5289 NED02

IC 5289 NED02

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
522 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
175k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 522 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5289 NED02 as it looked roughly 522 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.

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apart
NGC 7658ALenticular68 million ly
apart
NGC 7658BLenticular70 million ly
apart
NGC 7749Lenticular78 million ly
apart
NGC 7322Lenticular80 million ly
apart
NGC 7355Barred spiral80 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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