NGC 5812

NGC 5812

NGC 5812 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Libra about 92 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 71,000 ly, about 71% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,010 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
92 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
11.2
apparent magnitude
2,010 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 92 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5812 as it looked roughly 92 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 5885Spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 5861Spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5917Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5768Spiral8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5858Elliptical9.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5729Barred spiral10 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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