NGC 5405

NGC 5405

NGC 5405 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 321 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 78,000 ly, about 78% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 6,922 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
321 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
6,922 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 321 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5405 as it looked roughly 321 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 5438Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 5437Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 5436Lenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 5482Lenticular16 million ly
apart
NGC 5463Lenticular18 million ly
apart
NGC 5487Spiral21 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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