NGC 6016
NGC 6016
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
303 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 303 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6016 as it looked roughly 303 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
IC 1138Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 4583Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5991Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 4576Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 4575Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 4579Elliptical34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4583Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5991Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 4576Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 4575Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 4579Elliptical34 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).