NGC 5665

NGC 5665

NGC 5665 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 103 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 57,000 ly, about 57% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,271 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
103 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
2,271 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 103 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5665 as it looked roughly 103 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 5666Lenticular4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 5661Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5587Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 5600Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 5846AElliptical19 million ly
apart
NGC 5691Spiral21 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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