NGC 6295
NGC 6295
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
426 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 426 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6295 as it looked roughly 426 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 1252Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 6346Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 6170Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 6376Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 1267Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 6377Spiral36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6346Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 6170Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 6376Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 1267Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 6377Spiral36 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).