NGC 5751

NGC 5751

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
153 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 153 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5751 as it looked roughly 153 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 5820Lenticular6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5821Spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5876Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 5874Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 5905Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 5908Barred spiral14 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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