NGC 5504B
NGC 5504B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
244 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 244 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5504B as it looked roughly 244 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 5504CSpiral980,000 ly
apartNGC 5504Barred spiral2.4 million ly
apartIC 984Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 983Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 982Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 5459Lenticular14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5504Barred spiral2.4 million ly
apartIC 984Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 983Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 982Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 5459Lenticular14 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).