NGC 6658

NGC 6658

NGC 6658 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 192 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 84,000 ly, about 84% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,074 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
84k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
4,074 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6658 as it looked roughly 192 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 6641Spiral4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 6680Galaxy5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 6660Lenticular6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 6628Lenticular24 million ly
apart
NGC 6581Elliptical27 million ly
apart
NGC 6710Lenticular28 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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