IC 5372
IC 5372
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
490 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 490 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5372 as it looked roughly 490 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 5370Lenticular5.9 million ly
apartIC 5369Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 5373Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 5371Galaxy53 million ly
apartIC 5341Elliptical66 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical76 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5369Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 5373Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 5371Galaxy53 million ly
apartIC 5341Elliptical66 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical76 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).