NGC 6275

NGC 6275

NGC 6275 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 315 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 70,000 ly, about 70% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 6,749 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBd
315 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
17.4
apparent magnitude
6,749 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 315 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6275 as it looked roughly 315 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 6260Barred spiral9.6 million ly
apart
IC 1214Lenticular30 million ly
apart
NGC 6393Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
NGC 6436Spiral38 million ly
apart
NGC 6299Elliptical38 million ly
apart
NGC 6238Spiral40 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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