NGC 5135
NGC 5135
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
134k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5135 as it looked roughly 192 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 4248Spiral870,000 ly
apartNGC 5124Elliptical1.9 million ly
apartIC 4272Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apartNGC 5150Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartNGC 5153Elliptical8.9 million ly
apartIC 4275Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5124Elliptical1.9 million ly
apartIC 4272Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apartNGC 5150Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartNGC 5153Elliptical8.9 million ly
apartIC 4275Barred spiral12 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).