NGC 5905

NGC 5905

NGC 5905 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 157 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,331 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
157 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
147k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
3,331 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 157 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5905 as it looked roughly 157 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 5908Barred spiral1.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5876Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5965Spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5821Spiral7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5971Spiral8.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5820Lenticular9.2 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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