NGC 5071
NGC 5071
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
620 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
139k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 620 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5071 as it looked roughly 620 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 889Elliptical55 million ly
apartNGC 5186Barred spiral55 million ly
apartNGC 5059Spiral65 million ly
apartIC 898Lenticular71 million ly
apartIC 4223Barred spiral73 million ly
apartIC 901Spiral76 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5186Barred spiral55 million ly
apartNGC 5059Spiral65 million ly
apartIC 898Lenticular71 million ly
apartIC 4223Barred spiral73 million ly
apartIC 901Spiral76 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).