NGC 5363

NGC 5363

NGC 5363 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 53 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 64,000 ly, about 64% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,121 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
53 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
10.2
apparent magnitude
1,121 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 53 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5363 as it looked roughly 53 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 5360Lenticular2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5300Spiral2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5364Barred spiral5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5248Spiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5470Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5147Spiral7.5 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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