NGC 5610

NGC 5610

NGC 5610 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 236 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,078 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
236 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
119k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
5,078 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 236 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5610 as it looked roughly 236 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
IC 1006Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apart
IC 4420Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5559Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5637Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5548Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 5677Barred spiral15 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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