NGC 6358

NGC 6358

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
432 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 432 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6358 as it looked roughly 432 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 1252Spiral38 million ly
apart
NGC 6382Elliptical38 million ly
apart
NGC 6454Elliptical39 million ly
apart
NGC 6346Elliptical40 million ly
apart
IC 1237Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
NGC 6459Lenticular45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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