NGC 6532
NGC 6532
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
256 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 256 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6532 as it looked roughly 256 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 1286Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6449Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6566Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 6691Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6497Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6493Spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6449Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6566Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 6691Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6497Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6493Spiral33 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).