NGC 5448

NGC 5448

NGC 5448 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 94 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,973 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
94 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude
1,973 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 94 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5448 as it looked roughly 94 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 5425Spiral2.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5481Elliptical3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5500Elliptical5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5480Spiral5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5439Spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5520Barred spiral7.8 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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