NGC 5805 NED01

NGC 5805 NED01

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
909 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
175k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 909 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5805 NED01 as it looked roughly 909 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.

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NGC 5896Spiral130 million ly
apart
NGC 5391Elliptical170 million ly
apart
NGC 5753Spiral180 million ly
apart
IC 4560Lenticular190 million ly
apart
IC 922Elliptical200 million ly
apart
IC 923Elliptical210 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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