NGC 5337

NGC 5337

NGC 5337 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 99 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 48,000 ly, about 48% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,229 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
99 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
2,229 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 99 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5337 as it looked roughly 99 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 5362Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5353Lenticular7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5354Lenticular8.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5240Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 4341Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 5355Lenticular11 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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