NGC 5121A
NGC 5121A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABd
67 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
24k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 67 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5121A as it looked roughly 67 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 5121Spiral1.6 million ly
apartNGC 4980Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5398Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4976Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 4945ASpiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5042Spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4980Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5398Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4976Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 4945ASpiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5042Spiral16 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).