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
apart
NGC 5244Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5365ABarred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 5333Lenticular17 million ly
apart
IC 4390Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 5188Barred spiral21 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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