NGC 6701

NGC 6701

NGC 6701 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 185 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,983 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
185 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
3,983 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 185 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6701 as it looked roughly 185 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 6750Spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 6510Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
NGC 6687Spiral28 million ly
apart
NGC 6411Elliptical29 million ly
apart
NGC 6636 NED02Spiral33 million ly
apart
NGC 6361Barred spiral33 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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