NGC 5622
NGC 5622
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
180 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 180 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5622 as it looked roughly 180 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 1056Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5797Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 5804Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5828Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 951Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 5794Lenticular22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5797Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 5804Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5828Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 951Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 5794Lenticular22 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).