NGC 5993
NGC 5993
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
447 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 447 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5993 as it looked roughly 447 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 5992Barred spiral2.6 million ly
apartNGC 6038Spiral41 million ly
apartIC 1208Lenticular60 million ly
apartNGC 5888Barred spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 6119Spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 6120Barred spiral61 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6038Spiral41 million ly
apartIC 1208Lenticular60 million ly
apartNGC 5888Barred spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 6119Spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 6120Barred spiral61 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).