NGC 5626
NGC 5626
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
320 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
128k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 320 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5626 as it looked roughly 320 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 5495Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4374Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 5393Barred spiral51 million ly
apartIC 4350Lenticular56 million ly
apartIC 4320Lenticular58 million ly
apartIC 4298Spiral67 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4374Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 5393Barred spiral51 million ly
apartIC 4350Lenticular56 million ly
apartIC 4320Lenticular58 million ly
apartIC 4298Spiral67 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).