NGC 5594
NGC 5594
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
520 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
222k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 520 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5594 as it looked roughly 520 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
IC 4405Lenticular10 million ly
apartIC 4418Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 4395Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4399Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5508Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 4384Lenticular40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4418Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 4395Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4399Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5508Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 4384Lenticular40 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).