IC 5374
IC 5374
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
417 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 417 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5374 as it looked roughly 417 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 5375Spiral7.5 million ly
apartNGC 7797Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartIC 1527Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7825Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 1506Lenticular43 million ly
apartIC 1526Spiral51 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7797Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartIC 1527Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7825Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 1506Lenticular43 million ly
apartIC 1526Spiral51 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).