NGC 6321
NGC 6321
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
289 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
84k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 289 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6321 as it looked roughly 289 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 1236Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6347Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6314Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6375Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 6315Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 6379Spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6347Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6314Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6375Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 6315Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 6379Spiral30 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).