NGC 6348
NGC 6348
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
90 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
22k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 90 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6348 as it looked roughly 90 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 6339Spiral8.7 million ly
apartIC 1265Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1291Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6155Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6703Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 5974Spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1265Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1291Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6155Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6703Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 5974Spiral35 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).