NGC 6077

NGC 6077

NGC 6077 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Corona Borealis about 446 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about 1.5 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,591 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
446 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
150k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
9,591 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 446 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6077 as it looked roughly 446 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 6096Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 6076 NED01Galaxy21 million ly
apart
NGC 6086Elliptical22 million ly
apart
NGC 6075Lenticular23 million ly
apart
NGC 6051Elliptical27 million ly
apart
NGC 6085Spiral36 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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