NGC 5301
NGC 5301
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
70 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 70 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5301 as it looked roughly 70 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 902Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apartNGC 5303Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5582Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5103Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 5486Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5377Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5303Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5582Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5103Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 5486Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5377Spiral13 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).