NGC 5324

NGC 5324

NGC 5324 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 142 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 92,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,907 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
142 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
2,907 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 142 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5324 as it looked roughly 142 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 5369Elliptical4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5468Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 5472Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 5427Spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 5339Spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 971Spiral18 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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