NGC 5375
NGC 5375
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
111 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 111 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5375 as it looked roughly 111 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 5347Spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 5117Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5240Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4341Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5089Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5492Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5117Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5240Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4341Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5089Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5492Barred spiral19 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).