NGC 5987
NGC 5987
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
140 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
157k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 140 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5987 as it looked roughly 140 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 5982Elliptical6.1 million ly
apartNGC 5989Spiral7.7 million ly
apartNGC 5874Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1210Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5971Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5965Spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5989Spiral7.7 million ly
apartNGC 5874Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1210Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5971Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5965Spiral18 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).