NGC 6095

NGC 6095

NGC 6095 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Draco about 430 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 240,000 ly, about 2.4 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,244 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
430 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
238k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
9,244 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 430 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6095 as it looked roughly 430 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 6170Elliptical20 million ly
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NGC 6024Elliptical32 million ly
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IC 1212Elliptical32 million ly
apart
NGC 6088 NED02Elliptical33 million ly
apart
NGC 6088 NED01Elliptical40 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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