NGC 5504C
NGC 5504C
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
245 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 245 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5504C as it looked roughly 245 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 5504BBarred spiral980,000 ly
apartNGC 5504Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 983Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 984Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 982Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5459Lenticular14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5504Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 983Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 984Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 982Lenticular13 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).