NGC 5726
NGC 5726
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
161 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 161 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5726 as it looked roughly 161 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
IC 1077Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 5766Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5793Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5791Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 4501Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5810Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5766Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5793Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5791Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 4501Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5810Barred 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).