NGC 5259 NED02
NGC 5259 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
852 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
216k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 852 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5259 NED02 as it looked roughly 852 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 5287Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 961Barred spiral93 million ly
apartIC 4271 NED01Barred spiral110 million ly
apartIC 4369Barred spiral110 million ly
apartIC 4268Elliptical140 million ly
apartIC 4266Barred spiral150 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 961Barred spiral93 million ly
apartIC 4271 NED01Barred spiral110 million ly
apartIC 4369Barred spiral110 million ly
apartIC 4268Elliptical140 million ly
apartIC 4266Barred spiral150 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).