NGC 5720
NGC 5720
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
365 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
202k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 365 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5720 as it looked roughly 365 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 1074Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5818Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 1033Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 5767Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4528Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5835Spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5818Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 1033Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 5767Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4528Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5835Spiral31 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).