NGC 5648
NGC 5648
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
240 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
54k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 240 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5648 as it looked roughly 240 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
NGC 5655Barred spiral1.9 million ly
apartNGC 5583Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5504Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4478Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 5504BBarred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 5504CSpiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5583Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5504Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4478Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 5504BBarred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 5504CSpiral21 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).