NGC 5646
NGC 5646
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
400 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
139k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 400 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5646 as it looked roughly 400 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
NGC 5654Lenticular8.6 million ly
apartNGC 5613Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 5616Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5567Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 5568Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5517Lenticular26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5613Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 5616Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5567Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 5568Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5517Lenticular26 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).