NGC 5365A
NGC 5365A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
128 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 128 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5365A as it looked roughly 128 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 5333Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 5244Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5365BSpiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5266ABarred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5489Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5365Lenticular14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5244Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5365BSpiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5266ABarred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5489Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5365Lenticular14 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).