NGC 5395
NGC 5395
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
162 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 162 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5395 as it looked roughly 162 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 5394Barred spiral770,000 ly
apartNGC 5325Spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 5341Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartNGC 5399Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5351Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5440Spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5325Spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 5341Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartNGC 5399Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5351Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5440Spiral14 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).