IC 5378 NED01
IC 5378 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
296 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
47k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 296 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5378 NED01 as it looked roughly 296 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 5379Spiral9.5 million ly
apartIC 5378 NED02Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 15Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1513Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 7774 NED02Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 7774 NED01Elliptical30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5378 NED02Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 15Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1513Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 7774 NED02Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 7774 NED01Elliptical30 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).