NGC 5183
NGC 5183
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5183 as it looked roughly 200 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 5184Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5327Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 947Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 5211Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 903Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5335Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5327Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 947Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 5211Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 903Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5335Barred spiral31 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).