NGC 6875A

NGC 6875A

NGC 6875A is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Telescopium about 148 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,184 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
148 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
128k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
3,184 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 148 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6875A as it looked roughly 148 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 6875Elliptical2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 6861FBarred spiral5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 6893Lenticular8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 6851Elliptical8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 6902BSpiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 6851ABarred spiral13 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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