NGC 6063
NGC 6063
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
132 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 132 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6063 as it looked roughly 132 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 1205Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6014Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 1169Lenticular28 million ly
apartIC 1125Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5937Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6168Spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6014Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 1169Lenticular28 million ly
apartIC 1125Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5937Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6168Spiral33 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).