NGC 5329

NGC 5329

NGC 5329 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 331 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,109 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
331 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
143k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
7,109 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 331 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5329 as it looked roughly 331 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
IC 939Elliptical9.4 million ly
apart
IC 940Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 5270Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 5345Spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 5257Spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 5261Spiral24 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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