NGC 5610
NGC 5610
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
236 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
119k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 236 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5610 as it looked roughly 236 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 1006Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apartIC 4420Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apartNGC 5559Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 5637Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 5548Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 5677Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4420Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apartNGC 5559Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 5637Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 5548Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 5677Barred spiral15 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).