NGC 5887
NGC 5887
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
409 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
164k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 409 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5887 as it looked roughly 409 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 1068Elliptical44 million ly
apartNGC 5776Elliptical47 million ly
apartIC 1071Lenticular48 million ly
apartIC 1070Barred spiral50 million ly
apartIC 1073Lenticular50 million ly
apartIC 1089Elliptical51 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5776Elliptical47 million ly
apartIC 1071Lenticular48 million ly
apartIC 1070Barred spiral50 million ly
apartIC 1073Lenticular50 million ly
apartIC 1089Elliptical51 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).