NGC 5892
NGC 5892
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
107 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 107 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5892 as it looked roughly 107 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 4536Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 5916ABarred spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 5915Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 5916Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 5858Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 5890Lenticular12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5916ABarred spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 5915Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 5916Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 5858Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 5890Lenticular12 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).