NGC 5494
NGC 5494
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
122 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 122 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5494 as it looked roughly 122 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 5464Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apartIC 4351Barred spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 4391Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4393Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4323Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4430Lenticular18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4351Barred spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 4391Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4393Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4323Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4430Lenticular18 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).