NGC 5881
NGC 5881
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
306 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 306 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5881 as it looked roughly 306 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 1049Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1129Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 5939Spiral33 million ly
apartIC 1214Lenticular49 million ly
apartNGC 6091Elliptical53 million ly
apartIC 1201Barred spiral55 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1129Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 5939Spiral33 million ly
apartIC 1214Lenticular49 million ly
apartNGC 6091Elliptical53 million ly
apartIC 1201Barred spiral55 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).