IC 5371
IC 5371
IC 5371 is a galaxy in the constellation Andromeda about 437 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 66,000 ly, about 66% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 437 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
437 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 437 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5371 as it looked roughly 437 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 5373Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 5369Lenticular34 million ly
apartIC 5370Lenticular47 million ly
apartNGC 7773Barred spiral49 million ly
apartNGC 7740Lenticular52 million ly
apartIC 5372Galaxy53 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5369Lenticular34 million ly
apartIC 5370Lenticular47 million ly
apartNGC 7773Barred spiral49 million ly
apartNGC 7740Lenticular52 million ly
apartIC 5372Galaxy53 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).