NGC 6108

NGC 6108

NGC 6108 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Corona Borealis about 433 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,116 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
433 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
120k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
9,116 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 433 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6108 as it looked roughly 433 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 6107Elliptical3.0 million ly
apart
NGC 6112Elliptical4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 6110Spiral6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 6109Elliptical17 million ly
apart
NGC 6116Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 6089 NED02Spiral19 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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