NGC 5710
NGC 5710
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
421 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
174k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 421 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5710 as it looked roughly 421 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 5711Barred spiral700,000 ly
apartIC 1052Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1047Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4486Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 1036Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4480Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1052Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1047Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4486Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 1036Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4480Barred spiral15 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).