NGC 5013

NGC 5013

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
386 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 386 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5013 as it looked roughly 386 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 4734Spiral51 million ly
apart
NGC 5212Spiral54 million ly
apart
IC 855Galaxy56 million ly
apart
IC 872Barred spiral60 million ly
apart
NGC 5027Barred spiral61 million ly
apart
NGC 4992Barred spiral65 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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