NGC 5313

NGC 5313

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
119 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 119 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5313 as it looked roughly 119 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 4336Barred spiral890,000 ly
apart
NGC 5326Spiral970,000 ly
apart
NGC 5371Barred spiral2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5346Spiral2.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5290Barred spiral4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5320Spiral4.4 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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