NGC 5860 NED01
NGC 5860 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5860 NED01 as it looked roughly 255 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 5893Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 5895Spiral8.8 million ly
apartNGC 5787Lenticular9.3 million ly
apartNGC 5784Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 5923Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5934Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5895Spiral8.8 million ly
apartNGC 5787Lenticular9.3 million ly
apartNGC 5784Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 5923Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5934Barred spiral18 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).