NGC 5911
NGC 5911
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
513 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
163k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 513 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5911 as it looked roughly 513 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 1105Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5855Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 1107Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 1087Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 5847Barred spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 5942Elliptical43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5855Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 1107Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 1087Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 5847Barred spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 5942Elliptical43 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).