NGC 5
NGC 5
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
235 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 235 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5 as it looked roughly 235 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 5376Spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 6Elliptical8.9 million ly
apartNGC 7836Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 7831Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 13Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 19Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6Elliptical8.9 million ly
apartNGC 7836Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 7831Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 13Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 19Barred spiral15 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).