NGC 5627

NGC 5627

NGC 5627 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 376 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,792 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
376 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
7,792 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 376 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5627 as it looked roughly 376 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 1009Lenticular16 million ly
apart
NGC 5644Lenticular20 million ly
apart
NGC 5591 NED02Spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 5681Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 5591 NED01Spiral27 million ly
apart
IC 993Barred spiral29 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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