NGC 6214
NGC 6214
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
355 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 355 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6214 as it looked roughly 355 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 1228Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apartIC 1216Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1215Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6079Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 1204Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1214Lenticular32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1216Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1215Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6079Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 1204Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1214Lenticular32 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).