NGC 6365B

NGC 6365B

NGC 6365B is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 374 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,212 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sd
374 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude
8,212 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 374 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6365B as it looked roughly 374 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 6317Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 6319Elliptical14 million ly
apart
NGC 6365ABarred spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 6391Elliptical23 million ly
apart
IC 1259 NED01Elliptical25 million ly
apart
IC 1258Spiral25 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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