NGC 5592
NGC 5592
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
203 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 203 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5592 as it looked roughly 203 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 4388Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4378Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 5488Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5419Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 5397Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 4366Spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4378Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 5488Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5419Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 5397Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 4366Spiral27 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).