NGC 5314
NGC 5314
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
447 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 447 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5314 as it looked roughly 447 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 954Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 945Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 5415Elliptical36 million ly
apartNGC 5671Barred spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 5479Elliptical39 million ly
apartNGC 5262Elliptical43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 945Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 5415Elliptical36 million ly
apartNGC 5671Barred spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 5479Elliptical39 million ly
apartNGC 5262Elliptical43 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).