NGC 6001

NGC 6001

NGC 6001 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Corona Borealis about 465 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,964 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
465 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
143k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
9,964 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 465 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6001 as it looked roughly 465 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
IC 4581Spiral7.3 million ly
apart
IC 4572Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 4574Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 4569Elliptical14 million ly
apart
IC 4570Spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 4580Lenticular21 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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