NGC 6376
NGC 6376
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
399 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 399 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6376 as it looked roughly 399 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 6377Spiral980,000 ly
apartNGC 6394Barred spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED02Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6418Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1250Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 6346Elliptical19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6394Barred spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED02Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6418Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1250Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 6346Elliptical19 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).