NGC 5123
NGC 5123
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
386 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
133k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 386 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5123 as it looked roughly 386 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 5214Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 4985Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 4168Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 4165Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4100Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 4193Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4985Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 4168Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 4165Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4100Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 4193Barred spiral33 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).