NGC 5133

NGC 5133

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
297 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 297 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5133 as it looked roughly 297 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 892Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 5197Lenticular15 million ly
apart
NGC 5202Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 5196Elliptical16 million ly
apart
IC 893Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 5036Elliptical24 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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