NGC 6925

NGC 6925

NGC 6925 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Microscopium about 130 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 180,000 ly, about 1.8 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,699 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
130 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
177k ly
across
11.3
apparent magnitude
2,699 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 130 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6925 as it looked roughly 130 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 6923Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apart
IC 5003Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apart
IC 5007Spiral7.6 million ly
apart
IC 5020Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 6958Elliptical16 million ly
apart
IC 5005Barred spiral21 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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