NGC 5365

NGC 5365

NGC 5365 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 114 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,452 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
114 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
129k ly
across
11.3
apparent magnitude
2,452 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 114 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5365 as it looked roughly 114 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 5365BSpiral1.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5244Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5365ABarred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 4390Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 5333Lenticular18 million ly
apart
NGC 5188Barred spiral21 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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