NGC 5505
NGC 5505
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
199 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5505 as it looked roughly 199 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 5414Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 5522Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 987Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5434Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 967Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5418Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5522Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 987Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5434Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 967Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5418Barred spiral26 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).