NGC 6090 NED02
NGC 6090 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
412 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
53k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 412 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6090 NED02 as it looked roughly 412 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 6090 NED01Spiral740,000 ly
apartNGC 6136Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6157Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 1223Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6191Barred spiral49 million ly
apartNGC 6088 NED02Elliptical50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6136Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6157Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 1223Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6191Barred spiral49 million ly
apartNGC 6088 NED02Elliptical50 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).