NGC 5738
NGC 5738
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
80 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
22k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 80 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5738 as it looked roughly 80 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 5746Barred spiral600,000 ly
apartNGC 5690Spiral2.9 million ly
apartNGC 5733Spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 5713Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 5750Lenticular3.9 million ly
apartNGC 5705Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5690Spiral2.9 million ly
apartNGC 5733Spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 5713Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 5750Lenticular3.9 million ly
apartNGC 5705Barred spiral4.2 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).