NGC 5968
NGC 5968
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
257 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
171k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 257 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5968 as it looked roughly 257 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 4527Barred spiral61 million ly
apartIC 4597Spiral64 million ly
apartIC 4518ASpiral69 million ly
apartIC 4523Spiral69 million ly
apartNGC 5843Barred spiral72 million ly
apartIC 4518BSpiral74 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4597Spiral64 million ly
apartIC 4518ASpiral69 million ly
apartIC 4523Spiral69 million ly
apartNGC 5843Barred spiral72 million ly
apartIC 4518BSpiral74 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).