NGC 5683
NGC 5683
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
512 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 512 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5683 as it looked roughly 512 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 1031Elliptical6.4 million ly
apartIC 1032Spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 5723Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 5717Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 5721Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 5722Elliptical22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1032Spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 5723Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 5717Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 5721Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 5722Elliptical22 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).