IC 5349 NED01
IC 5349 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
368 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 368 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5349 NED01 as it looked roughly 368 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 5353Elliptical17 million ly
apartIC 5362Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 5354Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 5350Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 5326Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 5345Spiral38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5362Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 5354Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 5350Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 5326Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 5345Spiral38 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).