NGC 5089

NGC 5089

NGC 5089 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 102 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 28,000 ly, about 28% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,127 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
102 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
28k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
2,127 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 102 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5089 as it looked roughly 102 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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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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