NGC 6574

NGC 6574

NGC 6574 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 107 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 49,000 ly, about 49% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,321 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
107 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
2,321 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 107 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6574 as it looked roughly 107 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 6570Barred spiral1.8 million ly
apart
NGC 6555Spiral6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 6548Lenticular8.9 million ly
apart
NGC 6615Lenticular20 million ly
apart
NGC 6509Spiral28 million ly
apart
NGC 6547Lenticular28 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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