NGC 5029

NGC 5029

NGC 5029 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 405 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 8,747 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
405 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
179k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
8,747 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 405 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5029 as it looked roughly 405 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 4901Elliptical15 million ly
apart
NGC 4837 NED02Spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 4837 NED01Irregular21 million ly
apart
NGC 4741Spiral27 million ly
apart
NGC 4998Spiral28 million ly
apart
NGC 5256 NED01Barred spiral32 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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