NGC 5965

NGC 5965

NGC 5965 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 157 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 230,000 ly, about 2.3 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,420 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
157 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
233k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
3,420 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 157 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5965 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 5971Spiral1.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5908Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5905Barred spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5876Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 5821Spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 5874Spiral16 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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