NGC 5025
NGC 5025
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
295 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
178k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 295 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5025 as it looked roughly 295 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 5004BBarred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5052Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 4971Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 4983Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5032Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4238Spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5052Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 4971Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 4983Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5032Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4238Spiral22 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).