NGC 5355

NGC 5355

NGC 5355 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 110 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 37,000 ly, about 37% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,414 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
110 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
37k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
2,414 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 110 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5355 as it looked roughly 110 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 5354Lenticular2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 5358Lenticular2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 5350Barred spiral2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5353Lenticular4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5383Barred spiral4.6 million ly
apart
IC 4341Spiral5.5 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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