NGC 5799
NGC 5799
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
144 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 144 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5799 as it looked roughly 144 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 5833Barred spiral2.7 million ly
apartIC 4522Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5967Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5967ASpiral18 million ly
apartIC 4608Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 5612Spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4522Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5967Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5967ASpiral18 million ly
apartIC 4608Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 5612Spiral21 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).