NGC 5935
NGC 5935
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
248 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 248 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5935 as it looked roughly 248 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 5945Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 5934Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5895Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5893Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4566Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5923Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5934Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5895Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5893Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4566Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5923Spiral15 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).