NGC 5573

NGC 5573

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
349 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 349 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5573 as it looked roughly 349 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 5554Barred spiral2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5575Lenticular5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5546Elliptical7.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5552Barred spiral9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5549Lenticular9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5551Elliptical10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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