NGC 5941
NGC 5941
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
474 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 474 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5941 as it looked roughly 474 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 5944Barred spiral2.5 million ly
apartNGC 5940Spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 5955Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1112Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5942Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 5988Spiral41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5940Spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 5955Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1112Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5942Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 5988Spiral41 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).