NGC 5670

NGC 5670

NGC 5670 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Lupus about 135 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,888 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
135 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
2,888 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 135 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5670 as it looked roughly 135 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 4472Spiral4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5688Spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5489Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 5786Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 5365ABarred spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 5333Lenticular18 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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