NGC 5007
NGC 5007
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
390 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 390 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5007 as it looked roughly 390 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 852Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 4977Barred spiral44 million ly
apartNGC 5502Lenticular56 million ly
apartNGC 4857Spiral57 million ly
apartNGC 5278Barred spiral57 million ly
apartNGC 5279Barred spiral59 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4977Barred spiral44 million ly
apartNGC 5502Lenticular56 million ly
apartNGC 4857Spiral57 million ly
apartNGC 5278Barred spiral57 million ly
apartNGC 5279Barred spiral59 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).