NGC 5506
NGC 5506
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
82 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
69k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 82 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5506 as it looked roughly 82 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 978Spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 5584Spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 5507Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 5705Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5496Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5713Spiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5584Spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 5507Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 5705Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5496Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5713Spiral11 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).