NGC 6145
NGC 6145
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
400 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 400 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6145 as it looked roughly 400 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 6147Spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 6175 NED01Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 6175 NED02Irregular7.3 million ly
apartNGC 6150Elliptical7.9 million ly
apartNGC 6174 NED01Elliptical8.7 million ly
apartNGC 6174 NED02Lenticular11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6175 NED01Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 6175 NED02Irregular7.3 million ly
apartNGC 6150Elliptical7.9 million ly
apartNGC 6174 NED01Elliptical8.7 million ly
apartNGC 6174 NED02Lenticular11 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).