IC 5319
IC 5319
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
566 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
120k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 566 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5319 as it looked roughly 566 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 7649Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 1488Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7651 NED01Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 7525 NED02Galaxy27 million ly
apartNGC 7525 NED01Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 7523Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1488Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7651 NED01Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 7525 NED02Galaxy27 million ly
apartNGC 7525 NED01Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 7523Barred spiral29 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).