NGC 5716

NGC 5716

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
196 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 196 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5716 as it looked roughly 196 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 5743Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 5734Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 5761Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 5664Spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 5742Lenticular21 million ly
apart
NGC 5863Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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