NGC 5729
NGC 5729
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
85 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 85 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5729 as it looked roughly 85 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 5812Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 5861Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5768Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5705Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5719Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5713Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5861Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5768Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5705Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5719Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5713Spiral13 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).