NGC 5985
NGC 5985
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
117 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
135k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 117 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5985 as it looked roughly 117 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 5894Spiral7.5 million ly
apartNGC 5989Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5982Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 5783Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5777Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1210Spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5989Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5982Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 5783Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5777Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1210Spiral22 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).