IC 5377
IC 5377
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Irregular
type · IAB
49 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
13k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 49 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5377 as it looked roughly 49 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
NGC 7814Spiral450,000 ly
apartNGC 63Elliptical7.8 million ly
apartNGC 7332Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 428Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 337ASpiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7339Spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 63Elliptical7.8 million ly
apartNGC 7332Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 428Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 337ASpiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7339Spiral24 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).