NGC 6120
NGC 6120
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
428 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 428 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6120 as it looked roughly 428 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 6119Spiral450,000 ly
apartNGC 6137Elliptical5.3 million ly
apartNGC 6166Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 6110Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6108Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6107Elliptical22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6137Elliptical5.3 million ly
apartNGC 6166Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 6110Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6108Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6107Elliptical22 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).