NGC 5393
NGC 5393
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
281 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 281 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5393 as it looked roughly 281 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 4350Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 4374Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 4327Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 5495Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4320Lenticular40 million ly
apartNGC 5260Spiral41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4374Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 4327Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 5495Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4320Lenticular40 million ly
apartNGC 5260Spiral41 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).