NGC 6062B
NGC 6062B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
542 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 542 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6062B as it looked roughly 542 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 6062Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apartIC 1191 NED01Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1189Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 6056Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1194Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 6057Lenticular21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1191 NED01Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1189Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 6056Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1194Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 6057Lenticular21 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).