NGC 5679B

NGC 5679B

NGC 5679B is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 403 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,654 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
403 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
8,654 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 403 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5679B as it looked roughly 403 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.

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NGC 5619BBarred spiral31 million ly
apart
IC 1040Spiral31 million ly
apart
IC 1025Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
IC 1001Barred spiral32 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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