NGC 5295
NGC 5295
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
323 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 323 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5295 as it looked roughly 323 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 4470Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5712Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1139Galaxy31 million ly
apartIC 1143Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 5412Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 5909Barred spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5712Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1139Galaxy31 million ly
apartIC 1143Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 5412Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 5909Barred spiral37 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).