NGC 6000

NGC 6000

NGC 6000 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Scorpius about 103 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 57,000 ly, about 57% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,110 km/s.

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
2,110 km/s
receding (RC3)

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.

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NGC 5898Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 5903Elliptical22 million ly
apart
NGC 5890Lenticular25 million ly
apart
IC 4536Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 5892Spiral30 million ly
apart
NGC 5878Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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