NGC 6010

NGC 6010

NGC 6010 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Serpens about 93 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 49,000 ly, about 49% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,016 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
93 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
2,016 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 93 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6010 as it looked roughly 93 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 1158Spiral4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 6070Spiral6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6017Elliptical13 million ly
apart
NGC 5913Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 5917Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 5869Lenticular19 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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