NGC 5855
NGC 5855
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
503 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 503 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5855 as it looked roughly 503 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 1105Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1087Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5814Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5847Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5911Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 1082Elliptical35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1087Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5814Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5847Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5911Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 1082Elliptical35 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).