NGC 5613

NGC 5613

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
395 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 395 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5613 as it looked roughly 395 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 5568Spiral6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5567Elliptical7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5646Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 5616Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 5654Lenticular17 million ly
apart
NGC 5517Lenticular18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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