NGC 5092
NGC 5092
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
321 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 321 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5092 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 885Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 866Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 867Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 869 NED01Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 868Elliptical17 million ly
apartIC 870Spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 866Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 867Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 869 NED01Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 868Elliptical17 million ly
apartIC 870Spiral17 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).