IC 5357
IC 5357
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
326 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
150k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 326 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5357 as it looked roughly 326 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 5359Spiral1.5 million ly
apartNGC 7746Lenticular4.6 million ly
apartIC 5352Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 7738Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1515Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1517Lenticular21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7746Lenticular4.6 million ly
apartIC 5352Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 7738Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1515Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1517Lenticular21 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).