NGC 5591 NED01
NGC 5591 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
356 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 356 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5591 NED01 as it looked roughly 356 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 5591 NED02Spiral4.8 million ly
apartIC 1009Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 5550Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5644Lenticular16 million ly
apartIC 993Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5647Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1009Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 5550Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5644Lenticular16 million ly
apartIC 993Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5647Spiral19 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).