NGC 5660
NGC 5660
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
108 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 108 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5660 as it looked roughly 108 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 1029Spiral2.8 million ly
apartNGC 5693Spiral3.2 million ly
apartNGC 5602Spiral5.3 million ly
apartNGC 5707Spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 5633Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 5714Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5693Spiral3.2 million ly
apartNGC 5602Spiral5.3 million ly
apartNGC 5707Spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 5633Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 5714Barred spiral7.3 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).