NGC 5016
NGC 5016
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
122 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 122 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5016 as it looked roughly 122 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 5012Spiral2.5 million ly
apartIC 851Spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 4961Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 4793Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5117Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3740Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 851Spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 4961Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 4793Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5117Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3740Spiral15 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).