Key facts
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Right ascension
- 15 49 49.5423
- Declination
- −29 ° 23 ′ 12.797 ″
- Redshift
- 0.007 315 ± 0.000 003
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2193 ± 1 km/s
- Galactocentric velocity
- 2140 ± 2 km/s
- Distance
- 88.84 ± 7.70 Mly (27.240 ± 2.362 Mpc )
- Absolute magnitude v
- -20.89 +/- 0.36
- Type
- SB(s)bc
- Size
- ~66,600 ly (20.43 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.9′ × 1.6′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Image
- Yellow and blue, old and new (potw2539a).jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- SBbc
- catalog code
- RX J154944-29232
- Commons category
- NGC 6000
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-00-00
- redshift
- 0.007038
- apparent magnitude
- 8.201
- right ascension
- 237.4564833
- declination
- -29.3868056
- radial velocity
- 2110
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6000 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Scorpius. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 2,328±9 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 112.0 ± 7.9 Mly (34.33 ± 2.41 Mpc). However, 5 non-redshift measurements give a closer mean distance of 88.84 ± 7.70 Mly (27.240 ± 2.362 Mpc). It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 8 May 1834. It is designated as SB(s)bc in the galaxy morphological classification scheme, and is the brightest of all the galaxies in the constellation Scorpius.
NGC 6000 is a Seyfert II galaxy, i.e. it has a quasar-like nucleus with very high surface brightnesses whose spectra reveal strong, high-ionisation emission lines, but unlike quasars, the host galaxy is clearly detectable.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 6000” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.