NGC 5064

NGC 5064

NGC 5064 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 141 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,952 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
141 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
2,952 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 141 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5064 as it looked roughly 141 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 5156Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5266Lenticular9.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5266ABarred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 4946Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 5011ASpiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 5011Elliptical13 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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