NGC 5661
NGC 5661
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
110 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
37k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 110 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5661 as it looked roughly 110 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 5665Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 5666Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 5587Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 5600Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5846AElliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 5850Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5666Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 5587Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 5600Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5846AElliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 5850Barred spiral22 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).