NGC 5689

NGC 5689

NGC 5689 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 101 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,119 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
101 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
2,119 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 101 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5689 as it looked roughly 101 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 5700Barred spiral740,000 ly
apart
NGC 5676Spiral3.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5673Spiral4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5714Barred spiral5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5602Spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5707Spiral5.7 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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