NGC 6119
NGC 6119
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
429 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 429 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6119 as it looked roughly 429 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 6120Barred spiral450,000 ly
apartNGC 6137Elliptical5.3 million ly
apartNGC 6166Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 6110Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6108Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6107Elliptical22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6137Elliptical5.3 million ly
apartNGC 6166Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 6110Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6108Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6107Elliptical22 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).