NGC 5008
NGC 5008
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
433 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
135k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 433 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5008 as it looked roughly 433 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 4382Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 5498Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 4373Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 4349Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4344Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4345Elliptical27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5498Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 4373Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 4349Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4344Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4345Elliptical27 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).