NGC 6958

NGC 6958

NGC 6958 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Microscopium about 126 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 89,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,713 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
126 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
11.4
apparent magnitude
2,713 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 126 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6958 as it looked roughly 126 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.

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IC 5003Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
IC 5007Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 6923Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 4946Lenticular20 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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