NGC 5790
NGC 5790
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
516 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
177k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 516 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5790 as it looked roughly 516 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 1082Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 5769Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 5847Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1072Elliptical44 million ly
apartNGC 5855Elliptical46 million ly
apartIC 1105Spiral50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5769Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 5847Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1072Elliptical44 million ly
apartNGC 5855Elliptical46 million ly
apartIC 1105Spiral50 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).