NGC 6754

NGC 6754

NGC 6754 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Telescopium about 152 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 89,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,252 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
152 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
3,252 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 152 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6754 as it looked roughly 152 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.

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IC 4877Lenticular12 million ly
apart
IC 4875Irregular12 million ly
apart
IC 4856Irregular14 million ly
apart
IC 4796Lenticular15 million ly
apart
IC 4810Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 6788Spiral15 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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