NGC 5551
NGC 5551
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
354 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 354 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5551 as it looked roughly 354 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 5575Lenticular5.8 million ly
apartNGC 5554Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5573Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5552Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5549Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 1007Spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5554Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5573Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5552Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5549Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 1007Spiral14 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).