NGC 6962

NGC 6962

NGC 6962 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 196 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about 1.5 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,254 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABa
196 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
154k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude
4,254 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 196 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6962 as it looked roughly 196 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 6965Lenticular1.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6954Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 6964Elliptical19 million ly
apart
NGC 6967Lenticular20 million ly
apart
NGC 6961Elliptical22 million ly
apart
NGC 6944ASpiral24 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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