IC 5341
IC 5341
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
502 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
35k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 502 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5341 as it looked roughly 502 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 5346Galaxy36 million ly
apartIC 5347Galaxy51 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical56 million ly
apartIC 5367Spiral57 million ly
apartNGC 7718Spiral64 million ly
apartNGC 7728Elliptical64 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5347Galaxy51 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical56 million ly
apartIC 5367Spiral57 million ly
apartNGC 7718Spiral64 million ly
apartNGC 7728Elliptical64 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).