NGC 5093

NGC 5093

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
332 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 332 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5093 as it looked roughly 332 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 5083Spiral4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4963Spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 4077Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
IC 3921Spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 4158Spiral29 million ly
apart
IC 3895Barred spiral30 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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