NGC 5955
NGC 5955
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
461 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 461 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5955 as it looked roughly 461 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 5940Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 5941Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 5944Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1112Barred spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 5942Elliptical50 million ly
apartNGC 5988Spiral57 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5941Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 5944Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1112Barred spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 5942Elliptical50 million ly
apartNGC 5988Spiral57 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).