NGC 5312
NGC 5312
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5312 as it looked roughly 200 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 5318Lenticular840,000 ly
apartNGC 5433Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4357Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5444Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 5321Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 5512Elliptical20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5433Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4357Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5444Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 5321Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 5512Elliptical20 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).