NGC 5328

NGC 5328

NGC 5328 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 221 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 200,000 ly, about 2.0 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,705 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
221 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
197k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
4,705 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 221 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5328 as it looked roughly 221 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 5330Elliptical7.0 million ly
apart
IC 4319Barred spiral9.4 million ly
apart
IC 4326Spiral9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5357Elliptical11 million ly
apart
IC 4329Elliptical12 million ly
apart
IC 4321Barred spiral13 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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