NGC 5713

NGC 5713

NGC 5713 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 82 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 59,000 ly, about 59% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,883 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
82 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
11.3
apparent magnitude
1,883 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 82 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5713 as it looked roughly 82 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 5705Barred spiral630,000 ly
apart
NGC 5719Spiral2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5733Spiral3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5738Lenticular3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5746Barred spiral4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5690Spiral5.3 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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