IC 5375

IC 5375

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
425 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 425 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5375 as it looked roughly 425 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 5374Spiral7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7797Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 1527Spiral24 million ly
apart
IC 1506Lenticular38 million ly
apart
NGC 7825Spiral50 million ly
apart
IC 1526Spiral50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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