NGC 5786
NGC 5786
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
141 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 141 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5786 as it looked roughly 141 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 4472Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5688Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5670Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 5489Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4430Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 5365ABarred spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5688Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5670Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 5489Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4430Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 5365ABarred spiral30 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).