NGC 6912

NGC 6912

NGC 6912 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Capricornus about 329 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,119 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
329 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
7,119 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 329 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6912 as it looked roughly 329 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 1319Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 1321Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 1309Spiral57 million ly
apart
NGC 6924Elliptical60 million ly
apart
IC 1333Lenticular63 million ly
apart
IC 1324Lenticular66 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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