NGC 6012
NGC 6012
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
84 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
43k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 84 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6012 as it looked roughly 84 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 5951Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 5957Barred spiral7.7 million ly
apartNGC 5956Barred spiral9.6 million ly
apartNGC 5962Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5954Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5970Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5957Barred spiral7.7 million ly
apartNGC 5956Barred spiral9.6 million ly
apartNGC 5962Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5954Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5970Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).