NGC 5184
NGC 5184
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
186 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 186 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5184 as it looked roughly 186 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 5211Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 903Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5183Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5327Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 4888Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 4878Lenticular28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 903Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5183Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5327Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 4888Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 4878Lenticular28 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).