NGC 5980
NGC 5980
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
190 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 190 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5980 as it looked roughly 190 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 1133Barred spiral1.8 million ly
apartNGC 6003Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5936Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6004Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1141Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6027BLenticular22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6003Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5936Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6004Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1141Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6027BLenticular22 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).