NGC 5110

NGC 5110

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
259 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
198k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 259 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5110 as it looked roughly 259 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 4235Galaxy7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 5130Lenticular20 million ly
apart
IC 890Spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 4836Spiral32 million ly
apart
IC 865Spiral33 million ly
apart
NGC 5094Elliptical33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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