NGC 5350
NGC 5350
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
113 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
11.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 113 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5350 as it looked roughly 113 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 5358Lenticular370,000 ly
apartNGC 5355Lenticular2.6 million ly
apartNGC 5383Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apartNGC 5346Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 5354Lenticular5.0 million ly
apartNGC 5289Spiral5.1 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5355Lenticular2.6 million ly
apartNGC 5383Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apartNGC 5346Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 5354Lenticular5.0 million ly
apartNGC 5289Spiral5.1 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).