IC 5337
IC 5337
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
772 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
215k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 772 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5337 as it looked roughly 772 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
IC 5336 NED01Galaxy14 million ly
apartIC 5336 NED02Galaxy20 million ly
apartIC 5338Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 7745Galaxy89 million ly
apartNGC 7792Lenticular180 million ly
apartIC 1484Galaxy190 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5336 NED02Galaxy20 million ly
apartIC 5338Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 7745Galaxy89 million ly
apartNGC 7792Lenticular180 million ly
apartIC 1484Galaxy190 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).