NGC 6027E

NGC 6027E

NGC 6027E is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Serpens about 205 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,095 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
205 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
4,095 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 205 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6027E as it looked roughly 205 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 6027Lenticular29,000 ly
apart
NGC 6032Barred spiral5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 6060Spiral6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 6020Elliptical6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6028Lenticular6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 6027CBarred spiral8.2 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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