NGC 5100 NED01
NGC 5100 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
447 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
17.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 447 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5100 NED01 as it looked roughly 447 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 5106Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 845Elliptical67 million ly
apartIC 3714Barred spiral73 million ly
apartIC 943Barred spiral74 million ly
apartIC 840Spiral74 million ly
apartNGC 5013Barred spiral76 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 845Elliptical67 million ly
apartIC 3714Barred spiral73 million ly
apartIC 943Barred spiral74 million ly
apartIC 840Spiral74 million ly
apartNGC 5013Barred spiral76 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).