NGC 5331 NED01
NGC 5331 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
469 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
146k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 469 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5331 NED01 as it looked roughly 469 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 5331 NED02Barred spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 943Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5366Lenticular58 million ly
apartNGC 5192Spiral66 million ly
apartIC 985Spiral78 million ly
apartIC 977Barred spiral79 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 943Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5366Lenticular58 million ly
apartNGC 5192Spiral66 million ly
apartIC 985Spiral78 million ly
apartIC 977Barred spiral79 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).