NGC 5098 NED01
NGC 5098 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
523 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
120k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 523 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5098 NED01 as it looked roughly 523 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 861Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 5098 NED02Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 5096 NED01Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 5096 NED02Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 4201Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 4166Spiral36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5098 NED02Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 5096 NED01Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 5096 NED02Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 4201Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 4166Spiral36 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).