NGC 5365B
NGC 5365B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
115 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 115 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5365B as it looked roughly 115 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 5365Lenticular1.3 million ly
apartNGC 5244Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apartNGC 5365ABarred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5333Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 4390Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5188Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5244Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apartNGC 5365ABarred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5333Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 4390Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5188Barred spiral21 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).