NGC 5090A

NGC 5090A

NGC 5090A is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 163 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 90,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,553 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
163 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
3,553 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 163 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5090A as it looked roughly 163 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 5090Elliptical5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5026Spiral9.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4909Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 5091Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 4812Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 4835ASpiral14 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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