NGC 6394
NGC 6394
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
396 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
131k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 396 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6394 as it looked roughly 396 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 6377Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 6376Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 6418Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED02Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6365ABarred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1258Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6376Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 6418Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED02Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6365ABarred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1258Spiral19 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).