NGC 6142
NGC 6142
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
473 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
205k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 473 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6142 as it looked roughly 473 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 6122Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 6129Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 6126Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 6185Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6097Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 1208Lenticular26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6129Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 6126Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 6185Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6097Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 1208Lenticular26 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).