NGC 5778

NGC 5778

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
827 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
296k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 827 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5778 as it looked roughly 827 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 4465Lenticular100 million ly
apart
IC 1015 NED01Barred spiral110 million ly
apart
IC 4415Spiral110 million ly
apart
IC 1120Irregular110 million ly
apart
IC 1015 NED02Spiral110 million ly
apart
IC 4428Spiral110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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