NGC 6000
NGC 6000
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
103 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 103 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6000 as it looked roughly 103 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 5898Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 5903Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 5890Lenticular25 million ly
apartIC 4536Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5892Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 5878Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5903Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 5890Lenticular25 million ly
apartIC 4536Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5892Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 5878Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).