NGC 6057

NGC 6057

NGC 6057 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 528 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 190,000 ly, about 1.9 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 10,443 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
528 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
187k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
10,443 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 528 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6057 as it looked roughly 528 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 1192Barred spiral5.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6061Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 6050BSpiral14 million ly
apart
IC 1191 NED01Spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 1188BSpiral16 million ly
apart
IC 1194Lenticular18 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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