NGC 6060

NGC 6060

NGC 6060 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 205 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,554 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
205 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
113k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
4,554 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 205 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6060 as it looked roughly 205 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
NGC 6032Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 6027ELenticular6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 6027Lenticular6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 6020Elliptical8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 6028Lenticular9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 6027CBarred spiral10 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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