NGC 5650
NGC 5650
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
348 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 348 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5650 as it looked roughly 348 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 5674Spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 5679ASpiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 5575Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 5599Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5573Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5554Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5679ASpiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 5575Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 5599Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5573Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5554Barred spiral19 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).