NGC 5201
NGC 5201
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
406 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
187k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 406 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5201 as it looked roughly 406 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 5163Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 4974Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 4967Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 5001Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 4973Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 4998Spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4974Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 4967Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 5001Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 4973Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 4998Spiral30 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).