NGC 5528

NGC 5528

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
340 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 340 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5528 as it looked roughly 340 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 5511Elliptical5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5546Elliptical6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5514 NED02Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5514 NED01Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5543Spiral7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 5469Lenticular8.2 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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