NGC 6190

NGC 6190

NGC 6190 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 156 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 64,000 ly, about 64% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,416 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
156 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
3,416 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 156 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6190 as it looked roughly 156 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 6262Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 6292Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 6258Elliptical13 million ly
apart
NGC 6310Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 6373Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 6307Lenticular19 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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