NGC 5857
NGC 5857
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
225 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 225 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5857 as it looked roughly 225 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 5859Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apartIC 4534Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 5928Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 4517Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1132Spiral33 million ly
apartIC 1124Barred spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4534Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 5928Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 4517Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1132Spiral33 million ly
apartIC 1124Barred spiral35 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).