NGC 5703
NGC 5703
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
173 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 173 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5703 as it looked roughly 173 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 5735Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apartIC 4497Elliptical7.0 million ly
apartNGC 5653Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartNGC 5639Spiral9.6 million ly
apartNGC 5672Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 5657Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4497Elliptical7.0 million ly
apartNGC 5653Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartNGC 5639Spiral9.6 million ly
apartNGC 5672Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 5657Barred spiral14 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).