NGC 5148
NGC 5148
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBcd
312 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 312 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5148 as it looked roughly 312 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 5231Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 891Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 896Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 5159Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 904Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 5245Lenticular20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 891Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 896Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 5159Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 904Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 5245Lenticular20 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).