NGC 5815
NGC 5815
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
139 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
32k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 139 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5815 as it looked roughly 139 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 1081Lenticular6.5 million ly
apartNGC 5796Elliptical6.7 million ly
apartNGC 5809Lenticular9.5 million ly
apartIC 1055Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5728Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5757Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5796Elliptical6.7 million ly
apartNGC 5809Lenticular9.5 million ly
apartIC 1055Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5728Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5757Barred spiral14 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).