NGC 5050
NGC 5050
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
275 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 275 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5050 as it looked roughly 275 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 876Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4999Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 871Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 873Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 5104Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5060Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4999Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 871Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 873Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 5104Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5060Barred spiral23 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).