NGC 5032
NGC 5032
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
298 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
169k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 298 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5032 as it looked roughly 298 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 4983Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 4971Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 5004BBarred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4133Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5081Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5052Lenticular14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4971Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 5004BBarred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4133Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5081Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5052Lenticular14 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).