NGC 6183

NGC 6183

NGC 6183 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Triangulum Australe about 229 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 160,000 ly, about 1.6 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,880 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
229 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
157k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
4,880 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 229 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6183 as it looked roughly 229 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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IC 4578Barred spiral27 million ly
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IC 4661Spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 4654Spiral30 million ly
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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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