NGC 6068

NGC 6068

NGC 6068 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Minor about 184 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 69,000 ly, about 69% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,948 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
184 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
69k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
3,948 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 184 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6068 as it looked roughly 184 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 6068ALenticular3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 6232Spiral38 million ly
apart
IC 1110Spiral43 million ly
apart
NGC 6135Galaxy46 million ly
apart
NGC 6324Barred spiral46 million ly
apart
NGC 5144 NED02Spiral53 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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