NGC 6156
NGC 6156
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
153 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 153 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6156 as it looked roughly 153 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 4646Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6215ABarred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4595Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5938Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4584Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4585Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6215ABarred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4595Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5938Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4584Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4585Barred spiral28 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).