NGC 6061
NGC 6061
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
515 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
169k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 515 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6061 as it looked roughly 515 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 6050BSpiral5.0 million ly
apartIC 1188BSpiral7.6 million ly
apartIC 1188ALenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 6057Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 1190Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1192Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1188BSpiral7.6 million ly
apartIC 1188ALenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 6057Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 1190Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1192Barred spiral16 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).