NGC 5563
NGC 5563
NGC 5563 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 324 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 90,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 324 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
324 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 324 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5563 as it looked roughly 324 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 5538Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 5543Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5599Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5469Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 5528Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5546Elliptical20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5543Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5599Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5469Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 5528Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5546Elliptical20 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).