NGC 6116

NGC 6116

NGC 6116 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Corona Borealis about 415 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,800 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
415 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
8,800 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 415 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6116 as it looked roughly 415 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 6109Elliptical2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6114Spiral5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 6105Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 6110Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 6107Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 6108Barred spiral18 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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