NGC 6328
NGC 6328
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
204 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 204 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6328 as it looked roughly 204 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 6492Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4656Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4680Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6545Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 4674Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6407Lenticular21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4656Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4680Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6545Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 4674Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6407Lenticular21 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).