NGC 5012
NGC 5012
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
121 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 121 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5012 as it looked roughly 121 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 5016Spiral2.5 million ly
apartIC 851Spiral5.1 million ly
apartNGC 4961Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3740Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 4793Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5117Spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 851Spiral5.1 million ly
apartNGC 4961Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3740Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 4793Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5117Spiral16 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).