NGC 6890

NGC 6890

NGC 6890 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius about 112 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 52,000 ly, about 52% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,471 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
112 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
2,471 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 112 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6890 as it looked roughly 112 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 6861DElliptical10 million ly
apart
NGC 6861ESpiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 6861CLenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 6909Elliptical16 million ly
apart
IC 5011Lenticular18 million ly
apart
NGC 6870Spiral18 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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