NGC 5096 NED02
NGC 5096 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
550 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 550 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5096 NED02 as it looked roughly 550 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 5096 NED01Elliptical2.1 million ly
apartIC 861Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 5098 NED01Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 4300Elliptical34 million ly
apartIC 4201Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 4187Elliptical45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 861Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 5098 NED01Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 4300Elliptical34 million ly
apartIC 4201Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 4187Elliptical45 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).