NGC 6028

NGC 6028

NGC 6028 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 209 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 79,000 ly, about 79% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,480 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
209 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
4,480 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 209 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6028 as it looked roughly 209 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 6030Lenticular5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 6027ELenticular6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 6027Lenticular6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 6027CBarred spiral7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 6060Spiral9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 6032Barred spiral9.7 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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