NGC 5788
NGC 5788
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
515 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 515 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5788 as it looked roughly 515 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 1069Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 5902Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 5779Lenticular38 million ly
apartNGC 5683Lenticular40 million ly
apartIC 1031Elliptical45 million ly
apartIC 1032Spiral46 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5902Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 5779Lenticular38 million ly
apartNGC 5683Lenticular40 million ly
apartIC 1031Elliptical45 million ly
apartIC 1032Spiral46 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).