NGC 6098
NGC 6098
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
443 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
201k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 443 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6098 as it looked roughly 443 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 6099Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 6050Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6084Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6047Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 1170Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 1156Elliptical28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6050Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6084Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6047Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 1170Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 1156Elliptical28 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).