NGC 5211
NGC 5211
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
173 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 173 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5211 as it looked roughly 173 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 903Spiral4.7 million ly
apartNGC 5184Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5183Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 4878Lenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 5015Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 4888Spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5184Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5183Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 4878Lenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 5015Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 4888Spiral30 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).