NGC 5833

NGC 5833

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
142 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
128k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 142 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5833 as it looked roughly 142 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 5799Lenticular2.7 million ly
apart
IC 4522Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 5967Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 5967ASpiral15 million ly
apart
IC 4608Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 5612Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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