NGC 5846A

NGC 5846A

NGC 5846A is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 99 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 91,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,243 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
99 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
2,243 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 99 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5846A as it looked roughly 99 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 5869Lenticular3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5813Elliptical10 million ly
apart
NGC 5913Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 5792Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 5768Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 5864Lenticular15 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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