NGC 5323

NGC 5323

NGC 5323 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Minor about 93 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 28,000 ly, about 28% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 93 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
93 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
28k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 93 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5323 as it looked roughly 93 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 5452Spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4589Elliptical8.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4127Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 4291Elliptical13 million ly
apart
NGC 4572Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 3752Spiral14 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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