NGC 6070

NGC 6070

NGC 6070 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Serpens about 94 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 95,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,007 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
94 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
2,007 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 94 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6070 as it looked roughly 94 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 1158Spiral5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 6010Lenticular6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6017Elliptical14 million ly
apart
NGC 5913Spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 6118Spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 6014Lenticular22 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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