NGC 6050B
NGC 6050B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
514 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 514 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6050B as it looked roughly 514 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 1188BSpiral3.5 million ly
apartNGC 6061Elliptical5.0 million ly
apartIC 1188ALenticular7.1 million ly
apartNGC 6057Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 1190Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6039Elliptical17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6061Elliptical5.0 million ly
apartIC 1188ALenticular7.1 million ly
apartNGC 6057Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 1190Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6039Elliptical17 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).