NGC 6454

NGC 6454

NGC 6454 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Draco about 419 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 170,000 ly, about 1.7 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,169 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
419 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
172k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
9,169 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 419 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6454 as it looked roughly 419 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.

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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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