NGC 5944
NGC 5944
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
477 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
119k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 477 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5944 as it looked roughly 477 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 5941Elliptical2.5 million ly
apartNGC 5940Spiral6.2 million ly
apartNGC 5955Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1112Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5942Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 5988Spiral40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5940Spiral6.2 million ly
apartNGC 5955Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1112Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5942Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 5988Spiral40 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).