NGC 5070
NGC 5070
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
321 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 321 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5070 as it looked roughly 321 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 4217Barred spiral6.1 million ly
apartNGC 5146Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 5028Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 4220Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5203Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 5094Elliptical30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5146Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 5028Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 4220Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5203Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 5094Elliptical30 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).