05 Jul 2026
"NGC 5033 is an inclined spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is located at an approximate distance from Earth of 53 Mly. Size- about 100,000 ly. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1785.
It has a very bright nucleus and a relatively faint disk. Significant warping is visible in the southern half of the disk.
-The most recent supernovae, SN 2025mvn (Type II, mag. 17.912) was discovered by ATLAS on 3 June 2025 (it's not in this image, the capture was made in 2020-2021 period).
-It contains a Seyfert nucleus, a type of active galactic nucleus.
-NGC 5033 and the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 5005 comprise a physical galaxy pair. The two galaxies weakly influence each other gravitationally, but they are not yet close enough to each other to be distorted by the tidal forces of the gravitational interaction." (Wikipedia)
NGC 5033
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