NGC 6574

NGC 6574

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

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). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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