NGC 5562

NGC 5562

NGC 5562 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 426 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 99,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,139 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
426 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
9,139 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 426 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5562 as it looked roughly 426 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 5537Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
IC 1035Elliptical34 million ly
apart
IC 1038Elliptical43 million ly
apart
NGC 5747 NED02Barred spiral46 million ly
apart
IC 1040Spiral48 million ly
apart
NGC 5747 NED01Barred spiral49 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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