NGC 5463

NGC 5463

NGC 5463 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 334 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,235 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
334 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
7,235 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 334 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5463 as it looked roughly 334 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 5482Lenticular5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5437Barred spiral8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5469Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 5487Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 5438Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 5511Elliptical14 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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