NGC 5190

NGC 5190

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
197 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 197 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5190 as it looked roughly 197 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 5172Spiral9.9 million ly
apart
IC 856Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 860Barred spiral30 million ly
apart
IC 4215Spiral31 million ly
apart
IC 967Spiral32 million ly
apart
IC 987Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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