NGC 6867

NGC 6867

NGC 6867 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Telescopium about 207 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 97,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,389 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
207 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
4,389 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 207 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6867 as it looked roughly 207 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
IC 4978Galaxy3.5 million ly
apart
IC 4950Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 6855Lenticular6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 6848Spiral6.7 million ly
apart
IC 4952Lenticular7.2 million ly
apart
IC 4963Spiral7.9 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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