NGC 5952
NGC 5952
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
545 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 545 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5952 as it looked roughly 545 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 5960Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5942Elliptical45 million ly
apartIC 1116Elliptical45 million ly
apartNGC 5911Elliptical48 million ly
apartNGC 5983Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 1107Spiral49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5942Elliptical45 million ly
apartIC 1116Elliptical45 million ly
apartNGC 5911Elliptical48 million ly
apartNGC 5983Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 1107Spiral49 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).