NGC 5260
NGC 5260
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
303 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
145k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 303 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5260 as it looked roughly 303 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 4298Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4320Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 4350Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 4374Elliptical37 million ly
apartNGC 5393Barred spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 5495Spiral44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4320Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 4350Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 4374Elliptical37 million ly
apartNGC 5393Barred spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 5495Spiral44 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).