NGC 5358

NGC 5358

NGC 5358 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 113 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 2,432 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
113 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
37k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
2,432 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 113 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5358 as it looked roughly 113 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 5350Barred spiral370,000 ly
apart
NGC 5355Lenticular2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 5383Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5346Spiral4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5354Lenticular4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5289Spiral5.5 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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