NGC 5896
NGC 5896
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
916 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 916 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5896 as it looked roughly 916 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 4560Lenticular75 million ly
apartNGC 5753Spiral130 million ly
apartNGC 5805 NED01Elliptical130 million ly
apartIC 4539Spiral160 million ly
apartIC 4548Elliptical210 million ly
apartNGC 5391Elliptical230 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5753Spiral130 million ly
apartNGC 5805 NED01Elliptical130 million ly
apartIC 4539Spiral160 million ly
apartIC 4548Elliptical210 million ly
apartNGC 5391Elliptical230 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).