NGC 5730

NGC 5730

NGC 5730 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 118 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 69,000 ly, about 69% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,530 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sm
118 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
69k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
2,530 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 118 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5730 as it looked roughly 118 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 5731Spiral570,000 ly
apart
NGC 5630Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5704Spiral9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5633Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 5900Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 5899Spiral15 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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