NGC 5250
NGC 5250
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
212 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 212 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5250 as it looked roughly 212 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 907Barred spiral2.9 million ly
apartNGC 5225Elliptical4.7 million ly
apartNGC 5368Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 4987Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 951Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 830Lenticular32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5225Elliptical4.7 million ly
apartNGC 5368Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 4987Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 951Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 830Lenticular32 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).