NGC 6398
NGC 6398
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
252 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
179k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 252 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6398 as it looked roughly 252 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 4664Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4672Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6502Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 6483Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4687Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4689Spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4672Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6502Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 6483Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4687Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4689Spiral27 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).