NGC 5635

NGC 5635

NGC 5635 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 201 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about 1.5 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,352 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
201 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
153k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
4,352 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 201 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5635 as it looked roughly 201 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 4452Spiral3.9 million ly
apart
IC 1020Lenticular4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5641Spiral5.0 million ly
apart
IC 1017Lenticular6.6 million ly
apart
IC 4442Barred spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5642Elliptical9.2 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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