NGC 6089 NED02
NGC 6089 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · S?
440 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
181k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 440 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6089 NED02 as it looked roughly 440 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 6089 NED01Lenticular7.3 million ly
apartNGC 6103Spiral9.6 million ly
apartNGC 6112Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 6107Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 6108Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6110Spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6103Spiral9.6 million ly
apartNGC 6112Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 6107Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 6108Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6110Spiral22 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).