NGC 5618
NGC 5618
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
332 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 332 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5618 as it looked roughly 332 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 4401Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 997 NED01Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 998Galaxy19 million ly
apartIC 1010Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 5478Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 1011Spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 997 NED01Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 998Galaxy19 million ly
apartIC 1010Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 5478Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 1011Spiral33 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).