NGC 5814
NGC 5814
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
491 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 491 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5814 as it looked roughly 491 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 1087Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5855Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 1072Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 1105Spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 5911Elliptical50 million ly
apartIC 1082Elliptical53 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5855Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 1072Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 1105Spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 5911Elliptical50 million ly
apartIC 1082Elliptical53 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).