NGC 5186
NGC 5186
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
624 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
133k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 624 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5186 as it looked roughly 624 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 898Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 889Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 901Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 5071Lenticular55 million ly
apartIC 950 NED02Spiral84 million ly
apartNGC 5059Spiral86 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 889Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 901Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 5071Lenticular55 million ly
apartIC 950 NED02Spiral84 million ly
apartNGC 5059Spiral86 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).