NGC 6458

NGC 6458

NGC 6458 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 149 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 47,000 ly, about 47% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,200 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
149 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
47k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
3,200 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 149 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6458 as it looked roughly 149 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 6460Spiral6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 6495Elliptical7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 6490Elliptical7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 6417Barred spiral9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 6430Spiral9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 6467Spiral11 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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