IC 5378 NED02
IC 5378 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
272 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
47k ly
across
16.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 272 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5378 NED02 as it looked roughly 272 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 5379Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7810Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 57Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 5378 NED01Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 52Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7803Lenticular28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7810Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 57Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 5378 NED01Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 52Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7803Lenticular28 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).