NGC 6050
NGC 6050
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
446 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 446 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6050 as it looked roughly 446 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 1170Elliptical2.2 million ly
apartNGC 6047Elliptical9.4 million ly
apartNGC 6044Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 1156Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 6045Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6098Elliptical23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6047Elliptical9.4 million ly
apartNGC 6044Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 1156Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 6045Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6098Elliptical23 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).