NGC 5496
NGC 5496
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
72 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 72 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5496 as it looked roughly 72 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 976Lenticular1.3 million ly
apartIC 978Spiral4.6 million ly
apartNGC 5584Spiral6.1 million ly
apartNGC 5576Elliptical6.5 million ly
apartNGC 5577Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apartNGC 5566Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 978Spiral4.6 million ly
apartNGC 5584Spiral6.1 million ly
apartNGC 5576Elliptical6.5 million ly
apartNGC 5577Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apartNGC 5566Barred spiral7.0 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).