NGC 5282

NGC 5282

NGC 5282 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 564 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 11,991 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
564 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
108k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
11,991 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 564 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5282 as it looked roughly 564 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 5277Barred spiral9.7 million ly
apart
IC 4334Elliptical27 million ly
apart
NGC 5275Lenticular33 million ly
apart
IC 4300Elliptical37 million ly
apart
NGC 5271Barred spiral47 million ly
apart
NGC 5274Elliptical54 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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