NGC 5607

NGC 5607

NGC 5607 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Minor about 355 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 90,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,548 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
355 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
7,548 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 355 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5607 as it looked roughly 355 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.

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NGC 5836Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
NGC 5912Elliptical36 million ly
apart
IC 1145Barred spiral41 million ly
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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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