NGC 5220
NGC 5220
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
196 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
149k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 196 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5220 as it looked roughly 196 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 4299Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 5215BLenticular8.5 million ly
apartIC 4272Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5124Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 4248Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5135Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5215BLenticular8.5 million ly
apartIC 4272Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5124Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 4248Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5135Spiral15 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).