NGC 5892

NGC 5892

NGC 5892 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Libra about 107 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 95,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,375 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
107 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
2,375 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 107 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5892 as it looked roughly 107 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 4536Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5916ABarred spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5915Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5916Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5858Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 5890Lenticular12 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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