NGC 6185
NGC 6185
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
479 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
205k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 479 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6185 as it looked roughly 479 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
IC 4614Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6163Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 6142Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6161Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6122Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6197Barred spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6163Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 6142Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6161Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6122Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6197Barred spiral32 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).