NGC 5806

NGC 5806

NGC 5806 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 63 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 55,000 ly, about 55% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,351 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
63 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
1,351 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 63 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5806 as it looked roughly 63 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 5838Elliptical1.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5841Lenticular4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5770Lenticular5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5839Lenticular6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5921Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5845Elliptical8.7 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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