IC 5306
IC 5306
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
354 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 354 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5306 as it looked roughly 354 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 7627Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7601Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7586Galaxy21 million ly
apartNGC 7639Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 7455Galaxy33 million ly
apartNGC 7432Elliptical35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7601Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7586Galaxy21 million ly
apartNGC 7639Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 7455Galaxy33 million ly
apartNGC 7432Elliptical35 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).