NGC 5730
NGC 5730
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sm
118 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
69k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 118 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5730 as it looked roughly 118 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 5731Spiral570,000 ly
apartNGC 5630Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 5704Spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 5633Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5900Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5899Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5630Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 5704Spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 5633Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5900Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5899Spiral15 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).