NGC 5714

NGC 5714

NGC 5714 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 104 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 86,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 104 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
104 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 104 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5714 as it looked roughly 104 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 5693Spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5700Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5689Lenticular5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5633Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5660Spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5676Spiral8.0 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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