NGC 6274 NED02
NGC 6274 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
552 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
133k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 552 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6274 NED02 as it looked roughly 552 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 6274 NED01Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apartIC 4638Spiral44 million ly
apartNGC 6282Barred spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 6271Elliptical62 million ly
apartNGC 6261Lenticular64 million ly
apartNGC 6272Spiral65 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4638Spiral44 million ly
apartNGC 6282Barred spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 6271Elliptical62 million ly
apartNGC 6261Lenticular64 million ly
apartNGC 6272Spiral65 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).