NGC 5326

NGC 5326

NGC 5326 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 119 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,501 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
119 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude
2,501 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 119 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5326 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.

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IC 4336Barred spiral490,000 ly
apart
NGC 5313Spiral970,000 ly
apart
NGC 5346Spiral2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 5371Barred spiral2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5290Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5320Spiral5.1 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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