NGC 5674

NGC 5674

NGC 5674 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 349 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,442 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
349 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
7,442 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 349 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5674 as it looked roughly 349 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 5679ASpiral2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5650Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apart
IC 1039Lenticular17 million ly
apart
NGC 5575Lenticular20 million ly
apart
IC 1007Spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 5599Barred spiral21 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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