NGC 5619

NGC 5619

NGC 5619 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 389 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 260,000 ly, about 2.6 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,320 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
389 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
259k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
8,320 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 389 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5619 as it looked roughly 389 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 1001Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 5619BBarred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 1003Spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 1002Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 5679BBarred spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 1025Barred spiral23 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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