NGC 5847
NGC 5847
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
522 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 522 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5847 as it looked roughly 522 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 1082Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 5790Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 1105Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5855Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 1107Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1087Spiral40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5790Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 1105Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5855Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 1107Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1087Spiral40 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).