NGC 5676 — Sc in Boötes
Sc in Boötes, 3.6 arcminutes across, its light 101 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 5676
What you are looking at
NGC 5676 is a late-type spiral: a small central bulge and open, loosely wound arms full of young stars and star-forming gas. Its disc is steeply tilted, about 66° from face-on, so it appears as a long oval. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 105,000 light-years, close to the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as a member of a group of galaxies. It is cited in 268 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 30 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
The light that reaches us from NGC 5676 today set out about 101 million years ago, when the first flowering plants had appeared. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 2,104 km/s (4.7 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
NGC 5676 lies in Boötes. It is best placed on summer evenings: around 9:30 pm in June it stands about 81° high in the north, close to overhead, seen from the middle of the United States.
Its neighbours
At almost the same distance from us, and so its neighbours in space as well as on the sky: IC 1029 (0.5° away on the sky, at least 790,000 light-years from it); NGC 5660 (0.5° away on the sky, at least 890,000 light-years from it); NGC 5673 (0.5° away on the sky, at least 950,000 light-years from it); NGC 5689 (0.8° away on the sky, at least 1,480,000 light-years from it), and 7 more.
By apparent size it is number 323 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 51978 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Angular diameter | 3.59′ |
| Right ascension | 14h32m46.8s |
| Declination | +49°27′28.3″ |
| Constellation | Boötes |
| Inclination | 66.2° |
| Light travel time | 101 million years |
| Bar | not recorded |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
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At 3.6 arcminutes this is a Exceptional galaxy, which is the tier where a real photograph shows clear structure and dust lanes. The tier comes from the measured diameter, not from a price list.
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