NGC 6215A

NGC 6215A

NGC 6215A is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ara about 135 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 77,000 ly, about 77% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,894 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
135 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
2,894 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 135 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6215A as it looked roughly 135 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 6305Elliptical12 million ly
apart
IC 4646Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 6156Spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 4694Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
NGC 6630Elliptical30 million ly
apart
IC 4719Spiral34 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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