NGC 5274

NGC 5274

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
619 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
108k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 619 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5274 as it looked roughly 619 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 5275Lenticular21 million ly
apart
NGC 5282Elliptical54 million ly
apart
NGC 5277Barred spiral64 million ly
apart
IC 4300Elliptical68 million ly
apart
NGC 5441Barred spiral70 million ly
apart
IC 4239Lenticular73 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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