NGC 5775

NGC 5775

NGC 5775 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 79 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 85,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,563 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
79 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
11.4
apparent magnitude
1,563 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 79 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5775 as it looked roughly 79 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 5746Barred spiral4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5738Lenticular4.5 million ly
apart
IC 1066Spiral4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5831Elliptical4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5854Lenticular5.0 million ly
apart
IC 1048Barred spiral5.1 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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