NGC 5362

NGC 5362

NGC 5362 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 102 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 56,000 ly, about 56% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,232 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
102 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
2,232 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 102 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5362 as it looked roughly 102 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 5337Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5353Lenticular4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5354Lenticular6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5336Spiral7.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5355Lenticular8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5296Lenticular9.6 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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