NGC 5850
NGC 5850
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
119 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
11.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 119 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5850 as it looked roughly 119 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 1125Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5846AElliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 5937Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5869Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 5661Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1084Elliptical23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5846AElliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 5937Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5869Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 5661Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1084Elliptical23 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).