NGC 5581
NGC 5581
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
215 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
37k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 215 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5581 as it looked roughly 215 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 1013Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5553Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5629Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 5659Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5518Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 4397Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5553Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5629Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 5659Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5518Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 4397Barred spiral14 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).