NGC 6109

NGC 6109

NGC 6109 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Corona Borealis about 416 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,857 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
416 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
8,857 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 416 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6109 as it looked roughly 416 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 6116Spiral2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6114Spiral6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 6105Barred spiral9.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6110Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 6107Elliptical15 million ly
apart
NGC 6108Barred spiral17 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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