NGC 5633

NGC 5633

NGC 5633 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 108 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 34,000 ly, about 34% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,350 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
108 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
34k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
2,350 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 108 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5633 as it looked roughly 108 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 5714Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5693Spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5660Spiral6.6 million ly
apart
IC 1029Spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5700Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5689Lenticular9.0 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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