NGC 5752
NGC 5752
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
212 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
47k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 212 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5752 as it looked roughly 212 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 5754Barred spiral9.2 million ly
apartIC 4500Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5695Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5772Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4492Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 5686Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4500Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5695Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5772Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4492Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 5686Barred spiral20 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).