NGC 6674

NGC 6674

NGC 6674 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Hercules about 160 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 190,000 ly, about 1.9 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,502 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
160 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
186k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
3,502 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 160 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6674 as it looked roughly 160 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 6671Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apart
NGC 6602Spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 6586Spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 6599Lenticular23 million ly
apart
NGC 6587Elliptical27 million ly
apart
NGC 6680Galaxy30 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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