NGC 6141
NGC 6141
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
419 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 419 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6141 as it looked roughly 419 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 6146Elliptical3.1 million ly
apartNGC 6180Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6150Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6173Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 6158Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 6166BSpiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6180Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6150Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6173Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 6158Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 6166BSpiral15 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).