NGC 5004A
NGC 5004A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
339 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 339 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5004A as it looked roughly 339 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 5004Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 4916Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 5041Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4912Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 4922 NED01Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 842Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4916Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 5041Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4912Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 4922 NED01Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 842Barred spiral14 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).