NGC 5330

NGC 5330

NGC 5330 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 228 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 75,000 ly, about 75% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,881 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
228 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
4,881 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 228 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5330 as it looked roughly 228 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 5328Elliptical7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5357Elliptical7.9 million ly
apart
IC 4321Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
IC 4319Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 4324Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 4290Barred spiral16 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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