NGC 5842
NGC 5842
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
484 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 484 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5842 as it looked roughly 484 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 4525Barred spiral46 million ly
apartIC 4524Barred spiral46 million ly
apartIC 4521Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 1053Barred spiral52 million ly
apartIC 4503Elliptical56 million ly
apartIC 4533Spiral58 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4524Barred spiral46 million ly
apartIC 4521Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 1053Barred spiral52 million ly
apartIC 4503Elliptical56 million ly
apartIC 4533Spiral58 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).