NGC 6086

NGC 6086

NGC 6086 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Corona Borealis about 454 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 250,000 ly, about 2.5 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,392 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
454 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
251k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
9,392 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 454 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6086 as it looked roughly 454 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.

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NGC 6077Elliptical22 million ly
apart
NGC 6085Spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 6103Spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 6096Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 6076 NED01Galaxy25 million ly
apart
NGC 6089 NED01Lenticular29 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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