NGC 5588
NGC 5588
NGC 5588 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 159 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 44,000 ly, about 44% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 159 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
159 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 159 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5588 as it looked roughly 159 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 5580Lenticular4.9 million ly
apartNGC 5623Elliptical6.5 million ly
apartNGC 5579Spiral8.8 million ly
apartNGC 5557Elliptical9.1 million ly
apartNGC 5596Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 5656Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5623Elliptical6.5 million ly
apartNGC 5579Spiral8.8 million ly
apartNGC 5557Elliptical9.1 million ly
apartNGC 5596Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 5656Spiral13 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).