NGC 5240
NGC 5240
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
104 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 104 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5240 as it looked roughly 104 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 4341Spiral9.3 million ly
apartNGC 5347Spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 5337Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5353Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 5354Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 5089Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5347Spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 5337Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5353Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 5354Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 5089Barred spiral12 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).