NGC 6004
NGC 6004
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
178 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 178 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6004 as it looked roughly 178 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 6003Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 1133Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5980Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 6027BLenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 6027ALenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 5996Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1133Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5980Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 6027BLenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 6027ALenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 5996Barred spiral20 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).