NGC 5747 NED01
NGC 5747 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
406 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 406 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5747 NED01 as it looked roughly 406 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 1038Elliptical8.9 million ly
apartNGC 5747 NED02Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5736Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 5758Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 1040Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1044Lenticular24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5747 NED02Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5736Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 5758Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 1040Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1044Lenticular24 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).