NGC 6964

NGC 6964

NGC 6964 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 177 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 86,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,826 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
177 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
3,826 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 177 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6964 as it looked roughly 177 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 6967Lenticular1.2 million ly
apart
NGC 6961Elliptical3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 6959Lenticular6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 6954Lenticular15 million ly
apart
NGC 6945Elliptical17 million ly
apart
IC 1317Elliptical19 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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