NGC 5924

NGC 5924

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
437 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 437 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5924 as it looked roughly 437 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 4542Lenticular16 million ly
apart
IC 4549Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
IC 4568Barred spiral38 million ly
apart
IC 4570Spiral41 million ly
apart
IC 4580Lenticular43 million ly
apart
IC 4569Elliptical44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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