NGC 5331 NED02
NGC 5331 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
461 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 461 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5331 NED02 as it looked roughly 461 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 NED01Spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 943Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5366Lenticular50 million ly
apartNGC 5192Spiral70 million ly
apartIC 985Spiral72 million ly
apartIC 977Barred spiral73 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 943Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5366Lenticular50 million ly
apartNGC 5192Spiral70 million ly
apartIC 985Spiral72 million ly
apartIC 977Barred spiral73 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).