NGC 5756
NGC 5756
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
100 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 100 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5756 as it looked roughly 100 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 5858Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5781Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5878Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5892Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5890Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 4536Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5781Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5878Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5892Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5890Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 4536Barred spiral14 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).