NGC 6365B
NGC 6365B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
374 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 374 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6365B as it looked roughly 374 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 6317Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6319Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 6365ABarred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6391Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED01Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 1258Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6319Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 6365ABarred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6391Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED01Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 1258Spiral25 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).