NGC 5940
NGC 5940
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
471 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 471 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5940 as it looked roughly 471 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
NGC 5941Elliptical3.7 million ly
apartNGC 5944Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apartNGC 5955Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1112Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5942Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 5988Spiral42 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5944Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apartNGC 5955Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1112Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5942Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 5988Spiral42 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).