NGC 5716


NGC 5716 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Libra. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of. However, three non-redshift measurements give a much closer mean distance of. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 7 May 1787.
NGC 5716 has a possible active galactic nucleus, i.e. it has a compact region at the center of a galaxy that emits a significant amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, with characteristics indicating that this luminosity is not produced by the stars.

Supernova

One supernova has been observed in NGC 5716:SN 2024adxu was discovered by the Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events on 12 December 2024.