NGC 5104
NGC 5104
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
257 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 257 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5104 as it looked roughly 257 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 4224Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4996Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 4999Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 850Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 849Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5095Lenticular17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4996Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 4999Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 850Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 849Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5095Lenticular17 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).