NGC 5273
NGC 5273
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
48 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
32k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 48 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5273 as it looked roughly 48 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 5002Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 5014Spiral6.8 million ly
apartIC 4178Irregular10 million ly
apartNGC 5523Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4171Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5145Lenticular12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5014Spiral6.8 million ly
apartIC 4178Irregular10 million ly
apartNGC 5523Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4171Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5145Lenticular12 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).