NGC 5090B
NGC 5090B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
201 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 201 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5090B as it looked roughly 201 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 5082Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 5091Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 4603BBarred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 4622Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 4709Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 4359Spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5091Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 4603BBarred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 4622Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 4709Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 4359Spiral29 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).