NGC 5550
NGC 5550
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
347 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 347 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5550 as it looked roughly 347 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 994Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 993Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5591 NED01Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5532Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5591 NED02Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5647Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 993Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5591 NED01Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5532Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5591 NED02Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5647Spiral19 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).