NGC 5945
NGC 5945
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
256 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 256 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5945 as it looked roughly 256 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 5934Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartIC 4566Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 5935Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apartIC 4562Elliptical9.7 million ly
apartNGC 5923Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4567Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4566Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 5935Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apartIC 4562Elliptical9.7 million ly
apartNGC 5923Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4567Spiral13 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).