NGC 6022
NGC 6022
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
494 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 494 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6022 as it looked roughly 494 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 1155Spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 1163Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 1159Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 1165 NED02Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 6039Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 1186Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1163Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 1159Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 1165 NED02Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 6039Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 1186Barred spiral19 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).