NGC 5525
NGC 5525
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
258 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 258 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5525 as it looked roughly 258 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 5504CSpiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5504BBarred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 982Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 983Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5490CBarred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1000Lenticular17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5504BBarred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 982Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 983Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5490CBarred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1000Lenticular17 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).