NGC 5468, the galaxy shown in the accompanying image, is located about 130 million light-years from Earth.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent authoritative sources (NASA, ESA/Hubble) consistently citing ~130 million light-years, derived from established distance-ladder methods including Cepheid variables and a Type Ia supernova. [tier=silver indep_score=0.925 clusters=2 claim_tier=everyday | framework convergence=partial (upstreams: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations, NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- Una colaboración internacional obtiene la medida más precisa de la expansión del universo | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (seed:science_and_space)
- https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-spies-a-spiral-among-clouds/ (corroboration)
- https://esahubble.org/images/potw2323a/ (corroboration)