NGC 5754
NGC 5754
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
202 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 202 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5754 as it looked roughly 202 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 4500Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 5752Spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 5695Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4492Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5686Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5684Lenticular15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5752Spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 5695Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4492Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5686Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5684Lenticular15 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).