NGC 6030

NGC 6030

NGC 6030 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 205 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 77,000 ly, about 77% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,445 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
205 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
4,445 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 205 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6030 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 6028Lenticular5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 6027Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 6027ELenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 6032Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 6027CBarred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 6060Spiral13 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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