NGC 5010
NGC 5010
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
138 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 138 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5010 as it looked roughly 138 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 4221Barred spiral5.1 million ly
apartNGC 5031Lenticular7.6 million ly
apartNGC 5105Spiral8.4 million ly
apartNGC 5076Lenticular8.6 million ly
apartNGC 5022Barred spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 5079Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5031Lenticular7.6 million ly
apartNGC 5105Spiral8.4 million ly
apartNGC 5076Lenticular8.6 million ly
apartNGC 5022Barred spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 5079Barred spiral10 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).