NGC 5003
NGC 5003
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
500 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
150k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 500 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5003 as it looked roughly 500 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 4060Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 4135Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 4064Lenticular36 million ly
apartIC 4062Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 4085Elliptical37 million ly
apartIC 4068Elliptical37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4135Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 4064Lenticular36 million ly
apartIC 4062Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 4085Elliptical37 million ly
apartIC 4068Elliptical37 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).