NGC 5333

NGC 5333

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
129 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 129 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5333 as it looked roughly 129 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 5266ABarred spiral7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5365ABarred spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 5266Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 5489Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 5244Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 5156Barred spiral15 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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