NGC 5735
NGC 5735
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
173 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 173 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5735 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
IC 4497Elliptical2.7 million ly
apartNGC 5703Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 5639Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5653Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5672Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5657Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5703Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 5639Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5653Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5672Barred spiral14 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).