NGC 5777
NGC 5777
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
100 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 100 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5777 as it looked roughly 100 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 5687Elliptical8.9 million ly
apartNGC 5667Spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 5631Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 5526Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5678Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5376Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5667Spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 5631Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 5526Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5678Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5376Spiral13 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).