NGC 6467

NGC 6467

NGC 6467 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 141 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 58,000 ly, about 58% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 141 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
141 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 141 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6467 as it looked roughly 141 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 6430Spiral3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 6500Spiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6501Lenticular6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6495Elliptical6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 6490Elliptical10 million ly
apart
NGC 6458Lenticular11 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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