NGC 5267

NGC 5267

NGC 5267 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 276 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,941 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
276 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
5,941 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 276 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5267 as it looked roughly 276 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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NGC 5349Barred spiral18 million ly
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NGC 5143Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 5361Lenticular19 million ly
apart
NGC 5149Barred spiral24 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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