NGC 5604
NGC 5604
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
128 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 128 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5604 as it looked roughly 128 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 4407Barred spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 5493Lenticular9.3 million ly
apartNGC 5534Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5476Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5472Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5468Spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5493Lenticular9.3 million ly
apartNGC 5534Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5476Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5472Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5468Spiral12 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).