NGC 5833
NGC 5833
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
142 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
128k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 142 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5833 as it looked roughly 142 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 5799Lenticular2.7 million ly
apartIC 4522Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5967Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5967ASpiral15 million ly
apartIC 4608Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5612Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4522Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5967Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5967ASpiral15 million ly
apartIC 4608Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5612Spiral19 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).