NGC 5612
NGC 5612
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
129 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 129 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5612 as it looked roughly 129 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 4555Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apartIC 4522Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apartIC 4377Lenticular9.2 million ly
apartIC 4545Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5967ASpiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5967Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4522Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apartIC 4377Lenticular9.2 million ly
apartIC 4545Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5967ASpiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5967Spiral13 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).