NGC 5619
NGC 5619
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
389 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
259k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 389 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5619 as it looked roughly 389 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 1001Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1003Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1002Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5679BBarred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1025Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1003Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1002Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5679BBarred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1025Barred spiral23 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).