NGC 6483

NGC 6483

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
230 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 230 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6483 as it looked roughly 230 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
IC 4664Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apart
IC 4672Spiral9.3 million ly
apart
IC 4656Spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 4696Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 4698Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
IC 4737Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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