NGC 5760
NGC 5760
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
279 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 279 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5760 as it looked roughly 279 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 1076Barred spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 1075Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4469Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4482Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1097Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5628Elliptical25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1075Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4469Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4482Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1097Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5628Elliptical25 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).