NGC 5142
NGC 5142
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
250 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 250 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5142 as it looked roughly 250 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 5141Lenticular5.3 million ly
apartNGC 5154Spiral9.5 million ly
apartNGC 5149Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5276Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4225Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 4226Lenticular21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5154Spiral9.5 million ly
apartNGC 5149Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5276Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4225Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 4226Lenticular21 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).