NGC 5936
NGC 5936
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
189 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 189 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5936 as it looked roughly 189 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 1133Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5980Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1141Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1137Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 6003Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 5928Lenticular25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5980Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1141Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1137Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 6003Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 5928Lenticular25 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).