NGC 5960
NGC 5960
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
553 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
142k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 553 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5960 as it looked roughly 553 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 5952Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 5983Elliptical37 million ly
apartIC 1116Elliptical44 million ly
apartNGC 5997Elliptical44 million ly
apartNGC 5942Elliptical51 million ly
apartIC 1107Spiral54 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5983Elliptical37 million ly
apartIC 1116Elliptical44 million ly
apartNGC 5997Elliptical44 million ly
apartNGC 5942Elliptical51 million ly
apartIC 1107Spiral54 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).