NGC 5361

NGC 5361

NGC 5361 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 262 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 58,000 ly, about 58% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 5,649 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
262 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
5,649 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 262 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5361 as it looked roughly 262 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 5349Barred spiral3.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5305Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5407Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 5406Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 5265Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 5276Barred spiral19 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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