NGC 6027C

NGC 6027C

NGC 6027C is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Serpens about 213 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 68,000 ly, about 68% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,482 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
213 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
4,482 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 213 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6027C as it looked roughly 213 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 6028Lenticular7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 6052 NED01Galaxy7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6027Lenticular8.2 million ly
apart
NGC 6027ELenticular8.2 million ly
apart
NGC 6060Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 6020Elliptical12 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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