NGC 5090A
NGC 5090A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
163 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 163 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5090A as it looked roughly 163 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 5090Elliptical5.6 million ly
apartNGC 5026Spiral9.4 million ly
apartNGC 4909Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5091Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4812Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 4835ASpiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5026Spiral9.4 million ly
apartNGC 4909Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5091Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4812Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 4835ASpiral14 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).