NGC 6492
NGC 6492
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
138k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6492 as it looked roughly 200 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 4680Spiral9.6 million ly
apartNGC 6545Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 4674Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6328Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4714Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4729Spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6545Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 4674Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6328Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4714Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4729Spiral16 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).