NGC 5957
NGC 5957
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
85 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 85 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5957 as it looked roughly 85 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 5956Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apartNGC 5951Barred spiral4.6 million ly
apartNGC 6012Barred spiral7.7 million ly
apartNGC 5970Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 1131Elliptical8.3 million ly
apartNGC 5954Spiral8.6 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5951Barred spiral4.6 million ly
apartNGC 6012Barred spiral7.7 million ly
apartNGC 5970Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 1131Elliptical8.3 million ly
apartNGC 5954Spiral8.6 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).