NGC 5028
NGC 5028
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
300 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
185k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 300 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5028 as it looked roughly 300 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 4220Spiral6.7 million ly
apartNGC 5094Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 5047Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 4862Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5070Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 5146Elliptical22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5094Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 5047Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 4862Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5070Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 5146Elliptical22 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).