NGC 5765B
NGC 5765B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
385 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 385 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5765B as it looked roughly 385 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
IC 1073Lenticular6.1 million ly
apartIC 1071Lenticular7.4 million ly
apartIC 1070Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1068Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 5776Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 5718Elliptical20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1071Lenticular7.4 million ly
apartIC 1070Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1068Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 5776Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 5718Elliptical20 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).