NGC 5002
NGC 5002
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sm
50 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
20k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 50 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5002 as it looked roughly 50 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 5014Spiral2.2 million ly
apartIC 4178Irregular5.8 million ly
apartNGC 5273Lenticular5.8 million ly
apartIC 4171Spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 4369Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 4670Barred spiral9.6 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4178Irregular5.8 million ly
apartNGC 5273Lenticular5.8 million ly
apartIC 4171Spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 4369Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 4670Barred spiral9.6 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).