NGC 5560

NGC 5560

NGC 5560 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 82 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 1,731 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
82 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
1,731 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 82 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5560 as it looked roughly 82 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 5569Spiral1.2 million ly
apart
IC 1022Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5638Elliptical5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5636Lenticular5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5574Elliptical6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5690Spiral7.2 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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