NGC 5547
NGC 5547
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
546 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 546 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5547 as it looked roughly 546 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 5340Elliptical70 million ly
apartIC 1154Elliptical100 million ly
apartNGC 3736Barred spiral110 million ly
apartIC 1147Galaxy120 million ly
apartNGC 5640Galaxy120 million ly
apartNGC 4954Lenticular120 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1154Elliptical100 million ly
apartNGC 3736Barred spiral110 million ly
apartIC 1147Galaxy120 million ly
apartNGC 5640Galaxy120 million ly
apartNGC 4954Lenticular120 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).