NGC 5516
NGC 5516
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
208 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
145k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 208 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5516 as it looked roughly 208 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 4445Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4359Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4311Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4518BSpiral34 million ly
apartIC 4367Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 4312Lenticular35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4359Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4311Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4518BSpiral34 million ly
apartIC 4367Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 4312Lenticular35 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).