NGC 5383

NGC 5383

NGC 5383 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 114 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 82,000 ly, about 82% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,226 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
114 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
11.6
apparent magnitude
2,226 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 114 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5383 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 5350Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5358Lenticular3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5355Lenticular4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5289Spiral5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5371Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5346Spiral5.8 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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