NGC 6215A
NGC 6215A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
135 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 135 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6215A as it looked roughly 135 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
NGC 6305Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 4646Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6156Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4694Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6630Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 4719Spiral34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4646Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6156Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4694Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6630Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 4719Spiral34 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).