NGC 5627
NGC 5627
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
376 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 376 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5627 as it looked roughly 376 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 1009Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 5644Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 5591 NED02Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 5681Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5591 NED01Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 993Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5644Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 5591 NED02Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 5681Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5591 NED01Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 993Barred spiral29 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).