NGC 5415
NGC 5415
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
412 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 412 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5415 as it looked roughly 412 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 954Spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 945Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5671Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5034Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5262Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 5314Spiral36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 945Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5671Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5034Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5262Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 5314Spiral36 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).