NGC 5681
NGC 5681
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
370 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 370 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5681 as it looked roughly 370 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 1025Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5627Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 1044Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1040Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5650Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5627Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 1044Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1040Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5650Barred spiral27 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).