NGC 5698
NGC 5698
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
169 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 169 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5698 as it looked roughly 169 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 5732Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 5579Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5588Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5675Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5614Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5533Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5579Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5588Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5675Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5614Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5533Spiral19 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).