NGC 5398
NGC 5398
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
57 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
46k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 57 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5398 as it looked roughly 57 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 5556Spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 5530Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5643Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5121ASpiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5121Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 4980Spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5530Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5643Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5121ASpiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5121Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 4980Spiral16 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).