NGC 5285
NGC 5285
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
226k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5285 as it looked roughly 1.0 billion 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 886Galaxy180 million ly
apartNGC 5539Lenticular250 million ly
apartNGC 4991Barred spiral250 million ly
apartNGC 5535Elliptical270 million ly
apartIC 975Elliptical270 million ly
apartIC 833Galaxy300 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5539Lenticular250 million ly
apartNGC 4991Barred spiral250 million ly
apartNGC 5535Elliptical270 million ly
apartIC 975Elliptical270 million ly
apartIC 833Galaxy300 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).