NGC 6033
NGC 6033
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
432 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 432 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6033 as it looked roughly 432 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 1136Lenticular35 million ly
apartIC 1119 NED02Spiral79 million ly
apartIC 1119 NED01Galaxy81 million ly
apartNGC 5955Barred spiral85 million ly
apartNGC 6080 NED02Lenticular87 million ly
apartNGC 5887Lenticular97 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1119 NED02Spiral79 million ly
apartIC 1119 NED01Galaxy81 million ly
apartNGC 5955Barred spiral85 million ly
apartNGC 6080 NED02Lenticular87 million ly
apartNGC 5887Lenticular97 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).