NGC 6001
NGC 6001
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
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
apartIC 4572Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4574Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4569Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 4570Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4580Lenticular21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4572Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4574Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4569Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 4570Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4580Lenticular21 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).