NGC 5048
NGC 5048
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
203 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 203 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5048 as it looked roughly 203 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 5051Spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 5152Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4251Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5153Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 5182Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4275Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5152Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4251Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5153Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 5182Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4275Barred spiral13 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).