NGC 5597
NGC 5597
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
126 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 126 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5597 as it looked roughly 126 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 5595Spiral270,000 ly
apartIC 4476Lenticular9.2 million ly
apartNGC 5728Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5744Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5757Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4468Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4476Lenticular9.2 million ly
apartNGC 5728Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5744Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5757Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4468Barred spiral18 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).