NGC 5827

NGC 5827

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
308 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 308 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5827 as it looked roughly 308 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 5780Spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 5771Elliptical27 million ly
apart
NGC 5773Spiral29 million ly
apart
IC 1096Lenticular37 million ly
apart
IC 1097Barred spiral43 million ly
apart
NGC 5829Spiral45 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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