IC 5355
IC 5355
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
226 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 226 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5355 as it looked roughly 226 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 7805Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 7806Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7760Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7752Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 5376Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7819Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7806Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7760Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7752Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 5376Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7819Barred spiral16 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).