NGC 6081
NGC 6081
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
238 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 238 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6081 as it looked roughly 238 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 1196Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6132Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1199Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1149Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 1174Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 6018Lenticular30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6132Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1199Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1149Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 1174Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 6018Lenticular30 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).