NGC 5464
NGC 5464
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBm
126 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 126 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5464 as it looked roughly 126 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 4351Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartNGC 5494Spiral5.3 million ly
apartIC 4391Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4393Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4323Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4430Lenticular17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5494Spiral5.3 million ly
apartIC 4391Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4393Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4323Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4430Lenticular17 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).