NGC 5027
NGC 5027
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
328 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 328 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5027 as it looked roughly 328 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 872Barred spiral5.7 million ly
apartNGC 5118Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5125Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5075Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 5209Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 5210Spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5118Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5125Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5075Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 5209Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 5210Spiral30 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).