NGC 5318

NGC 5318

NGC 5318 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 200 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 88,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,210 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
4,210 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5318 as it looked roughly 200 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 5312Lenticular840,000 ly
apart
NGC 5433Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
IC 4357Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 5444Elliptical15 million ly
apart
NGC 5321Lenticular15 million ly
apart
NGC 5512Elliptical19 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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