NGC 5699
NGC 5699
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
182k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5699 as it looked roughly 1.0 billion 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 4461Spiral140 million ly
apartIC 4369Barred spiral170 million ly
apartIC 4548Elliptical210 million ly
apartIC 4539Spiral220 million ly
apartNGC 5753Spiral240 million ly
apartIC 961Barred spiral250 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4369Barred spiral170 million ly
apartIC 4548Elliptical210 million ly
apartIC 4539Spiral220 million ly
apartNGC 5753Spiral240 million ly
apartIC 961Barred spiral250 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).