IC 5328

IC 5328

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
143 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
11.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 143 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5328 as it looked roughly 143 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 7744Elliptical7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7476Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 7400Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 7713ASpiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 92Spiral27 million ly
apart
NGC 7702Lenticular28 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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