NGC 6074 NED02
NGC 6074 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
470 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 470 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6074 NED02 as it looked roughly 470 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 6065Elliptical8.4 million ly
apartNGC 6066Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 1198Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1165 NED01Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 1165 NED02Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 1206Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6066Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 1198Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1165 NED01Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 1165 NED02Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 1206Spiral26 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).