NGC 6552

NGC 6552

NGC 6552 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 371 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,846 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
371 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
7,846 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 371 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6552 as it looked roughly 371 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 6536Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 6457Elliptical14 million ly
apart
NGC 6471 NED01Spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 6470Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 6419Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 6420Elliptical19 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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