NGC 5391
NGC 5391
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
878 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 878 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5391 as it looked roughly 878 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 4284Spiral72 million ly
apartIC 922Elliptical160 million ly
apartNGC 5805 NED01Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 923Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 929Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 4271 NED01Barred spiral170 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 922Elliptical160 million ly
apartNGC 5805 NED01Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 923Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 929Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 4271 NED01Barred spiral170 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).