NGC 6070 — Sc in Serpens
Sc in Serpens, 3.5 arcminutes across, its light 96 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 6070
What you are looking at
NGC 6070 is a late-type spiral: a small central bulge and open, loosely wound arms full of young stars and star-forming gas. It is tilted about 60° to our line of sight, enough to show both the shape of its arms and the depth of its disc. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 97,000 light-years, close to the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
It is cited in 168 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 18 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
The light that reaches us from NGC 6070 today set out about 96 million years ago, when dinosaurs were at their peak. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 2,003 km/s (4.5 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
In the sky, NGC 6070 sits within the constellation Serpens. It is best placed on summer evenings: around 9:30 pm in July it stands about 51° high in the south, seen from the middle of the United States.
Its neighbours
At almost the same distance from us, and so its neighbours in space as well as on the sky: UGC 10290 (1.1° away on the sky, at least 1,920,000 light-years from it); UGC 10288 (1.4° away on the sky, at least 2,400,000 light-years from it); IC 1158 (2.3° away on the sky, at least 3,890,000 light-years from it).
By apparent size it is number 348 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 57345 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Angular diameter | 3.49′ |
| Right ascension | 16h09m58.7s |
| Declination | +00°42′34.3″ |
| Constellation | Serpens |
| Inclination | 59.8° |
| Light travel time | 96 million years |
| Bar | not recorded |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
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At 3.5 arcminutes this is a Exceptional galaxy, which is the tier where a real photograph shows clear structure and dust lanes. The tier comes from the measured diameter, not from a price list.
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