NGC 5011A

NGC 5011A

NGC 5011A is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 144 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 66,000 ly, about 66% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,096 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
144 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
3,096 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 144 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5011A as it looked roughly 144 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 5011Elliptical1.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4946Elliptical3.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4811Lenticular8.4 million ly
apart
NGC 5026Spiral9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4743Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 5064Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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