NGC 6105

NGC 6105

NGC 6105 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Corona Borealis about 407 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 84,000 ly, about 84% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 8,654 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
407 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
84k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
8,654 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 407 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6105 as it looked roughly 407 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 6114Spiral4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 6116Spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 6109Elliptical9.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6117Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 6104Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 6110Spiral19 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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