NGC 5938
NGC 5938
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
164 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
11.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 164 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5938 as it looked roughly 164 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 4584Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4585Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4595Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5799Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 6156Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5833Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4585Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4595Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5799Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 6156Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5833Barred spiral28 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).