NGC 5182
NGC 5182
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
206 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 206 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5182 as it looked roughly 206 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 4251Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 5152Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apartIC 4275Barred spiral6.1 million ly
apartIC 4295Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apartIC 4267Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 5153Elliptical7.6 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5152Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apartIC 4275Barred spiral6.1 million ly
apartIC 4295Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apartIC 4267Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 5153Elliptical7.6 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).