NGC 6035
NGC 6035
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
104 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
29k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 104 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6035 as it looked roughly 104 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 1151Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 6149Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 6181Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4582Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5962Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5953Lenticular19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6149Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 6181Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4582Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5962Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5953Lenticular19 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).