NGC 5754

NGC 5754

NGC 5754 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 202 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 75,000 ly, about 75% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,519 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
202 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
4,519 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 202 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5754 as it looked roughly 202 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
IC 4500Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5752Spiral9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5695Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
IC 4492Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 5686Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 5684Lenticular15 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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