NGC 5937
NGC 5937
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
131 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 131 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5937 as it looked roughly 131 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 1125Spiral3.0 million ly
apartNGC 5850Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5891Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6014Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 5809Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 5916ABarred spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5850Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5891Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6014Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 5809Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 5916ABarred spiral32 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).