NGC 5792 — Sb in Libra
Sb in Libra, 3.5 arcminutes across, its light 92 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 5792
What you are looking at
NGC 5792 is a spiral with a sizeable central bulge and well-defined arms, close in type to the Milky Way. Its disc is steeply tilted, about 72° from face-on, so it appears as a long oval. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 95,000 light-years, close to the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as a Seyfert galaxy: its nucleus is lit by gas falling into its central black hole, though dust hides part of that glow from us. It is cited in 199 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 21 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
The light that reaches us from NGC 5792 today set out about 92 million years ago, when dinosaurs were at their peak. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 1,924 km/s (4.3 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
In the sky, NGC 5792 sits within the constellation Libra. It is best placed on summer evenings: around 9:30 pm in June it stands about 49° high in the south, 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: UGC 9601 (0.7° away on the sky, at least 1,060,000 light-years from it); UGC 9682 (1.5° away on the sky, at least 2,490,000 light-years from it); NGC 5768 (2.1° away on the sky, at least 3,410,000 light-years from it).
By apparent size it is number 335 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 53499 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Angular diameter | 3.55′ |
| Right ascension | 14h58m22.7s |
| Declination | -01°05′27.7″ |
| Constellation | Libra |
| Inclination | 72.4° |
| Light travel time | 92 million years |
| Bar | yes, from the catalogue |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
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At 3.5 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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