NGC 6209
NGC 6209
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
276 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
169k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 276 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6209 as it looked roughly 276 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 4654Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6557Lenticular37 million ly
apartIC 4641Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 4747Spiral44 million ly
apartIC 4644Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 4713Barred spiral48 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6557Lenticular37 million ly
apartIC 4641Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 4747Spiral44 million ly
apartIC 4644Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 4713Barred spiral48 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).