NGC 5420
NGC 5420
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
229 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 229 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5420 as it looked roughly 229 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 991Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5664Spiral33 million ly
apartIC 4235Galaxy47 million ly
apartNGC 5716Barred spiral48 million ly
apartIC 4280Barred spiral48 million ly
apartIC 4315Barred spiral51 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5664Spiral33 million ly
apartIC 4235Galaxy47 million ly
apartNGC 5716Barred spiral48 million ly
apartIC 4280Barred spiral48 million ly
apartIC 4315Barred spiral51 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).