NGC 5236

M83 · NGC 5236

Southern Pinwheel Galaxy is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra. It is receding from us at about 503 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
7.2
apparent magnitude
503 km/s
receding (RC3)
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). No reliable distance is available, so none is shown.

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