NGC 5345
NGC 5345
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
338 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
147k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 338 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5345 as it looked roughly 338 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 968 NED01Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 5392Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 5400Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 968 NED02Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 5329Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 5478Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5392Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 5400Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 968 NED02Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 5329Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 5478Barred spiral23 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).