NGC 5360

NGC 5360

NGC 5360 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 55 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 18,000 ly, about 18% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,192 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
55 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
18k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
1,192 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 55 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5360 as it looked roughly 55 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 5300Spiral2.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5363Lenticular2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5364Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5248Spiral5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5470Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5147Spiral8.1 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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