NGC 5758

NGC 5758

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
425 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
137k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 425 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5758 as it looked roughly 425 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 5747 NED02Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 5747 NED01Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
IC 4483Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
IC 1038Elliptical28 million ly
apart
NGC 5782Lenticular28 million ly
apart
IC 1035Elliptical36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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