NGC 5519

NGC 5519

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
347 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
179k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 347 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5519 as it looked roughly 347 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 5514 NED02Barred spiral3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5514 NED01Barred spiral3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5546Elliptical6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5511Elliptical8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5528Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5554Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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