NGC 5114

NGC 5114

NGC 5114 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 167 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 88,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,619 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
167 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
3,619 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 167 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5114 as it looked roughly 167 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
IC 4219Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5193ALenticular6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5193Elliptical8.6 million ly
apart
IC 4296Elliptical13 million ly
apart
NGC 5215ALenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 5140Elliptical14 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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