NGC 5619B
NGC 5619B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
375 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 375 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5619B as it looked roughly 375 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 1003Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 1002Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1007Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1001Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5619Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1025Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1002Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1007Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1001Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5619Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1025Barred spiral16 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).