NGC 5719

NGC 5719

NGC 5719 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 84 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,713 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABa
84 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
1,713 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 84 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5719 as it looked roughly 84 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 5713Spiral2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5705Barred spiral2.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5691Spiral3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5738Lenticular5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5746Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5733Spiral5.6 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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