NGC 5537
NGC 5537
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
403 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 403 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5537 as it looked roughly 403 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
IC 1001Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1002Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5619Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 1003Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5679BBarred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 5562Lenticular33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1002Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5619Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 1003Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5679BBarred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 5562Lenticular33 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).