NGC 5376

NGC 5376

NGC 5376 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 96 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 41,000 ly, about 41% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,086 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABa
96 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
41k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
2,086 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 96 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5376 as it looked roughly 96 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 5308Lenticular3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5526Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5342Lenticular6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5484Elliptical8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5667Spiral8.4 million ly
apart
NGC 5294Irregular8.5 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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