NGC 5917
NGC 5917
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
90 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 90 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5917 as it looked roughly 90 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 5885Spiral6.0 million ly
apartNGC 5861Spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 5812Elliptical8.2 million ly
apartNGC 5913Spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 5858Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5878Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5861Spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 5812Elliptical8.2 million ly
apartNGC 5913Spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 5858Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5878Barred spiral12 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).