NGC 5679B
NGC 5679B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
403 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 403 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5679B as it looked roughly 403 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 5619Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5718Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1040Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1025Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1001Barred spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5718Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1040Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1025Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1001Barred spiral32 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).