NGC 5707

NGC 5707

NGC 5707 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 103 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 72,000 ly, about 72% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,208 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
103 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
2,208 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 103 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5707 as it looked roughly 103 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 5602Spiral4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5689Lenticular5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5687Elliptical5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5700Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5693Spiral6.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5660Spiral6.4 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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