NGC 6418
NGC 6418
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
401 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 401 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6418 as it looked roughly 401 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 6394Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6376Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6377Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6473Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 6474Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED02Elliptical15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6376Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6377Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6473Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 6474Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED02Elliptical15 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).