NGC 5025

NGC 5025

NGC 5025 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 295 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 180,000 ly, about 1.8 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,361 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
295 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
178k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
6,361 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 295 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5025 as it looked roughly 295 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.

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NGC 5032Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 4238Spiral22 million ly
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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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