NGC 5555
NGC 5555
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
515 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 515 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5555 as it looked roughly 515 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 4360Barred spiral79 million ly
apartIC 4372Lenticular79 million ly
apartNGC 5309Galaxy80 million ly
apartIC 4354Spiral83 million ly
apartIC 4368Lenticular89 million ly
apartIC 4364Barred spiral100 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4372Lenticular79 million ly
apartNGC 5309Galaxy80 million ly
apartIC 4354Spiral83 million ly
apartIC 4368Lenticular89 million ly
apartIC 4364Barred spiral100 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).