NGC 6180
NGC 6180
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
420 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
133k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 420 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6180 as it looked roughly 420 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 6146Elliptical8.3 million ly
apartNGC 6173Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 6141Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4611Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6166BSpiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6158Elliptical12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6173Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 6141Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4611Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6166BSpiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6158Elliptical12 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).