NGC 5572
NGC 5572
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
346 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 346 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5572 as it looked roughly 346 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 5497Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5541Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 990Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 5625 NED02Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5515Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4380Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5541Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 990Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 5625 NED02Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5515Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4380Barred spiral26 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).