NGC 5609
NGC 5609
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.4 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
196k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.4 billion ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5609 as it looked roughly 1.4 billion 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 5699Elliptical400 million ly
apartIC 3898Spiral440 million ly
apartIC 4285Galaxy490 million ly
apartIC 4369Barred spiral490 million ly
apartIC 1103Elliptical500 million ly
apartIC 4151 NED01Barred spiral510 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3898Spiral440 million ly
apartIC 4285Galaxy490 million ly
apartIC 4369Barred spiral490 million ly
apartIC 1103Elliptical500 million ly
apartIC 4151 NED01Barred spiral510 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).