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.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 7382Spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 7658ALenticular68 million ly
apartNGC 7658BLenticular70 million ly
apartNGC 7749Lenticular78 million ly
apartNGC 7322Lenticular80 million ly
apartNGC 7355Barred spiral80 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7658ALenticular68 million ly
apartNGC 7658BLenticular70 million ly
apartNGC 7749Lenticular78 million ly
apartNGC 7322Lenticular80 million ly
apartNGC 7355Barred spiral80 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).