NGC 5731
NGC 5731
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
117 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 117 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5731 as it looked roughly 117 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 5730Spiral570,000 ly
apartNGC 5630Barred spiral9.4 million ly
apartNGC 5704Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5633Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5900Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5899Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5630Barred spiral9.4 million ly
apartNGC 5704Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5633Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5900Barred spiral13 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).