NGC 5116
NGC 5116
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
134 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 134 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5116 as it looked roughly 134 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 5016Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5012Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 4961Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 851Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 4793Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5117Spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5012Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 4961Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 851Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 4793Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5117Spiral23 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).