NGC 5657
NGC 5657
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
185 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 185 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5657 as it looked roughly 185 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 1012Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 4442Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 1018Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 1019Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 5703Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5735Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4442Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 1018Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 1019Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 5703Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5735Barred spiral14 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).