NGC 5066
NGC 5066
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
131 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
30k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 131 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5066 as it looked roughly 131 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 4216Spiral3.0 million ly
apartNGC 5122Lenticular5.4 million ly
apartNGC 5079Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apartNGC 5119Lenticular6.6 million ly
apartNGC 5077Elliptical7.2 million ly
apartNGC 5105Spiral9.1 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5122Lenticular5.4 million ly
apartNGC 5079Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apartNGC 5119Lenticular6.6 million ly
apartNGC 5077Elliptical7.2 million ly
apartNGC 5105Spiral9.1 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).