NGC 5456
NGC 5456
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
333 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
132k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 333 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5456 as it looked roughly 333 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 5437Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5463Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 5438Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 5482Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 959Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 994Spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5463Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 5438Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 5482Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 959Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 994Spiral22 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).