NGC 5865
NGC 5865
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
546 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
198k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 546 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5865 as it looked roughly 546 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 1107Spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 5911Elliptical49 million ly
apartIC 1105Spiral51 million ly
apartNGC 5855Elliptical53 million ly
apartIC 1102Spiral56 million ly
apartIC 1106Barred spiral56 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5911Elliptical49 million ly
apartIC 1105Spiral51 million ly
apartNGC 5855Elliptical53 million ly
apartIC 1102Spiral56 million ly
apartIC 1106Barred spiral56 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).