NGC 5967A
NGC 5967A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
130 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 130 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5967A as it looked roughly 130 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 5967Spiral5.5 million ly
apartIC 4522Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 4555Barred spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 5612Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4608Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4545Spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4522Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 4555Barred spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 5612Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4608Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4545Spiral14 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).