NGC 5746
NGC 5746
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
80 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
169k ly
across
10.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 80 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5746 as it looked roughly 80 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 5738Lenticular600,000 ly
apartNGC 5690Spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 5733Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 5775Barred spiral4.0 million ly
apartNGC 5713Spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 5750Lenticular4.2 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5690Spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 5733Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 5775Barred spiral4.0 million ly
apartNGC 5713Spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 5750Lenticular4.2 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).