NGC 6010
NGC 6010
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
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
apartNGC 6070Spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 6017Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 5913Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5917Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5869Lenticular19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6070Spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 6017Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 5913Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5917Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5869Lenticular19 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).