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Stephan's Quintet

Galaxy group · Visual grouping of five galaxies

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Stephan's Quintet
Picture: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

About Stephan's Quintet

The light we see from it set out 0.291 billion years ago, when the universe was 13.5 billion years old (redshift 0.02041).

The map lists it as a galaxy group and shows it at the scale of the large-scale universe, drawn on the supergalactic plane.

Key numbers

Distance (comoving, today)0.294 billion light-years (90 Mpc)
Redshift z0.02041
Light travel time0.291 billion years
Universe's age when this light left13.5 billion years
Distance methodredshift-independent (literature)
Supergalactic coordinatesSGL 327.5°, SGB +37.3°

Where it is

Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Observable universe.

Zoom out to see it in context: Nearby superclusters, a view about 2.3 billion light-years across.

From Wikipedia

Stephan's Quintet is a visual grouping of five galaxies of which four form the first ever compact galaxy groups to be discovered. The group, visible in the constellation Pegasus, was discovered by Édouard Stephan in 1877 at the Marseille Observatory. The group is the heavily studied compact galaxy groups.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Stephan's Quintet, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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