NGC 606

NGC 606

NGC 606 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 464 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,956 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
464 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
9,956 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 464 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 606 as it looked roughly 464 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.

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NGC 695Lenticular34 million ly
apart
IC 1742Spiral37 million ly
apart
NGC 719Lenticular53 million ly
apart
IC 1753Elliptical72 million ly
apart
IC 1701Elliptical78 million ly
apart
IC 1752Galaxy78 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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