NGC 5020
NGC 5020
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
156 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 156 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5020 as it looked roughly 156 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 4779Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 3611Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 3631Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 4803Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 4795Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 5172Spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3611Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 3631Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 4803Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 4795Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 5172Spiral37 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).