NGC 6512

NGC 6512

NGC 6512 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Draco about 390 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 92,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,420 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
390 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
8,420 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 390 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6512 as it looked roughly 390 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 6521Elliptical8.2 million ly
apart
NGC 6534Galaxy11 million ly
apart
NGC 6435Elliptical13 million ly
apart
NGC 6488Elliptical14 million ly
apart
NGC 6597Elliptical17 million ly
apart
NGC 6601Elliptical17 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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