NGC 5678

NGC 5678

NGC 5678 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 89 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,267 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
89 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
11.4
apparent magnitude
2,267 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 89 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5678 as it looked roughly 89 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 5667Spiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 5631Lenticular4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5526Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5485Lenticular7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5389Lenticular8.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5443Barred spiral8.2 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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