NGC 5386
NGC 5386
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5386 as it looked roughly 200 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 5382Lenticular800,000 ly
apartNGC 5374Barred spiral2.5 million ly
apartIC 966Lenticular3.4 million ly
apartNGC 5414Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 5418Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5434Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5374Barred spiral2.5 million ly
apartIC 966Lenticular3.4 million ly
apartNGC 5414Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 5418Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5434Spiral20 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).