NGC 5408
NGC 5408
NGC 5408 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. It is receding from us at about 537 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Irregular
type · IB
11.6
apparent magnitude
537 km/s
receding (RC3)
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). No reliable distance is available, so none is shown.