NGC 6560

NGC 6560

NGC 6560 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 328 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,034 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABa
328 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
7,034 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 328 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6560 as it looked roughly 328 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 6515Elliptical25 million ly
apart
NGC 6478Spiral30 million ly
apart
NGC 6466Elliptical32 million ly
apart
NGC 6479Spiral47 million ly
apart
NGC 6386Barred spiral47 million ly
apart
NGC 6663Spiral49 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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