NGC 5096 NED01
NGC 5096 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
548 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
139k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 548 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5096 NED01 as it looked roughly 548 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 5096 NED02Elliptical2.1 million ly
apartIC 861Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 5098 NED01Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4300Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 4201Elliptical38 million ly
apartIC 4187Elliptical44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 861Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 5098 NED01Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4300Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 4201Elliptical38 million ly
apartIC 4187Elliptical44 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).