NGC 5004B
NGC 5004B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
296 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 296 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5004B as it looked roughly 296 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 4971Elliptical8.6 million ly
apartNGC 4983Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5032Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5025Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4133Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 5052Lenticular12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4983Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5032Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5025Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4133Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 5052Lenticular12 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).