NGC 5755
NGC 5755
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBcd
448 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 448 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5755 as it looked roughly 448 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 4502Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4515Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4519Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 4446Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4435Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 4413Elliptical36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4515Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4519Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 4446Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4435Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 4413Elliptical36 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).