NGC 6080 NED02
NGC 6080 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
352 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 352 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6080 NED02 as it looked roughly 352 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 6220Spiral59 million ly
apartIC 4552Spiral61 million ly
apartNGC 6240Lenticular61 million ly
apartIC 1136Lenticular81 million ly
apartNGC 6037Lenticular82 million ly
apartNGC 6033Barred spiral87 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4552Spiral61 million ly
apartNGC 6240Lenticular61 million ly
apartIC 1136Lenticular81 million ly
apartNGC 6037Lenticular82 million ly
apartNGC 6033Barred spiral87 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).