NGC 6017
NGC 6017
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
83 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
19k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 83 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6017 as it looked roughly 83 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 1158Spiral9.7 million ly
apartNGC 5957Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6012Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5956Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6010Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 6070Spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5957Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6012Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5956Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6010Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 6070Spiral14 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).