NGC 6062
NGC 6062
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
546 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
189k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 546 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6062 as it looked roughly 546 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 6062BSpiral4.2 million ly
apartIC 1191 NED01Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1189Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 6056Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 1194Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 6057Lenticular24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1191 NED01Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1189Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 6056Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 1194Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 6057Lenticular24 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).