NGC 5670
NGC 5670
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
135 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 135 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5670 as it looked roughly 135 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 4472Spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 5688Spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 5489Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5786Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5365ABarred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5333Lenticular18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5688Spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 5489Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5786Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5365ABarred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5333Lenticular18 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).