NGC 5607
NGC 5607
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
355 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 355 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5607 as it looked roughly 355 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 1046Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 5808Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5412Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 5836Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 5912Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 1145Barred spiral41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5808Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5412Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 5836Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 5912Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 1145Barred spiral41 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).