NGC 5375

NGC 5375

NGC 5375 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 111 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 75,000 ly, about 75% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,270 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
111 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
2,270 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 111 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5375 as it looked roughly 111 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 5347Spiral8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5117Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 5240Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 4341Spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 5089Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 5492Barred 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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