NGC 5859
NGC 5859
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
222 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
165k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 222 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5859 as it looked roughly 222 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 5857Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apartIC 4534Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 5928Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 1132Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4517Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 5975Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4534Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 5928Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 1132Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4517Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 5975Barred spiral34 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).