NGC 5001
NGC 5001
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
422 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
141k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 422 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5001 as it looked roughly 422 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 4973Elliptical8.3 million ly
apartNGC 4967Elliptical9.5 million ly
apartNGC 4974Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5163Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 4998Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5201Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4967Elliptical9.5 million ly
apartNGC 4974Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5163Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 4998Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5201Barred spiral27 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).