NGC 5373
NGC 5373
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
554 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 554 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5373 as it looked roughly 554 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 NED01Spiral90 million ly
apartIC 950 NED02Spiral92 million ly
apartNGC 5331 NED02Barred spiral98 million ly
apartNGC 5192Spiral100 million ly
apartIC 943Barred spiral100 million ly
apartIC 901Spiral110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 950 NED02Spiral92 million ly
apartNGC 5331 NED02Barred spiral98 million ly
apartNGC 5192Spiral100 million ly
apartIC 943Barred spiral100 million ly
apartIC 901Spiral110 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).