NGC 5767
NGC 5767
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
362 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 362 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5767 as it looked roughly 362 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 4528Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5818Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1033Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 5835Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1074Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5720Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5818Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1033Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 5835Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1074Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5720Barred spiral25 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).