NGC 6112

NGC 6112

NGC 6112 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Corona Borealis about 438 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 99,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,319 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
438 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
9,319 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 438 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6112 as it looked roughly 438 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 6108Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 6107Elliptical7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6110Spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 1208Lenticular17 million ly
apart
NGC 6089 NED02Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 6126Elliptical20 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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