NGC 5780
NGC 5780
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
319 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 319 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5780 as it looked roughly 319 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 5771Elliptical5.7 million ly
apartNGC 5773Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 5827Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1096Lenticular58 million ly
apartIC 4482Barred spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 5829Spiral62 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5773Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 5827Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1096Lenticular58 million ly
apartIC 4482Barred spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 5829Spiral62 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).