NGC 5559
NGC 5559
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
240 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 240 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5559 as it looked roughly 240 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 1006Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 5610Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apartIC 4420Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 5637Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5548Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5513Lenticular20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5610Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apartIC 4420Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 5637Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5548Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5513Lenticular20 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).