NGC 6123

NGC 6123

NGC 6123 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Draco about 185 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 49,000 ly, about 49% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,986 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
185 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
3,986 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 185 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6123 as it looked roughly 185 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 6135Galaxy18 million ly
apart
NGC 6244Spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 6361Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 6247Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
NGC 6292Spiral31 million ly
apart
NGC 6310Barred spiral32 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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