NGC 5711
NGC 5711
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
422 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 422 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5711 as it looked roughly 422 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 5710Elliptical700,000 ly
apartIC 1052Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 1047Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4486Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 1036Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4480Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1052Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 1047Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4486Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 1036Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4480Barred 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).