NGC 5510
NGC 5510
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBm
67 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
19k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 67 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5510 as it looked roughly 67 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 5247Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5170Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5556Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5099Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 5088Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5042Spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5170Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5556Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5099Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 5088Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5042Spiral17 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).