NGC 5548
NGC 5548
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
227 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 227 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5548 as it looked roughly 227 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 4420Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 5610Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5559Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1006Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5581Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 5677Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5610Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5559Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1006Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5581Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 5677Barred spiral15 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).