NGC 6137

NGC 6137

NGC 6137 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Corona Borealis about 430 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 220,000 ly, about 2.2 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,303 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
430 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
223k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
9,303 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 430 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6137 as it looked roughly 430 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.

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NGC 6119Spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 6120Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 6166Elliptical16 million ly
apart
IC 4610Spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 6158Elliptical22 million ly
apart
IC 4611Spiral22 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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