NGC 6310

NGC 6310

NGC 6310 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 159 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 78,000 ly, about 78% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,386 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
159 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
3,386 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 159 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6310 as it looked roughly 159 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 6292Spiral1.7 million ly
apart
NGC 6373Spiral9.5 million ly
apart
NGC 6381Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 6262Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 6385Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 6390Barred spiral13 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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