NGC 5314

NGC 5314

NGC 5314 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Minor about 447 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,582 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
447 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
9,582 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 447 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5314 as it looked roughly 447 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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IC 954Spiral28 million ly
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IC 945Barred spiral30 million ly
apart
NGC 5415Elliptical36 million ly
apart
NGC 5671Barred spiral39 million ly
apart
NGC 5479Elliptical39 million ly
apart
NGC 5262Elliptical43 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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