NGC 5082

NGC 5082

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
182 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 182 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5082 as it looked roughly 182 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 5091Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apart
NGC 5090BBarred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 5090ALenticular19 million ly
apart
NGC 4706Lenticular20 million ly
apart
NGC 4832Lenticular21 million ly
apart
NGC 5234Lenticular23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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