NGC 5384

NGC 5384

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
237 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 237 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5384 as it looked roughly 237 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 5387Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5417Spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 952Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 5434Spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 5418Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 5335Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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