NGC 5267

NGC 5267

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
276 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 276 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5267 as it looked roughly 276 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.

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NGC 5265Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 5305Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 5349Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 5143Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 5361Lenticular19 million ly
apart
NGC 5149Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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