NGC 6549
NGC 6549
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
309 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 309 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6549 as it looked roughly 309 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 1268Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1269Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4676Galaxy40 million ly
apartIC 4691Elliptical40 million ly
apartNGC 6580Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 4688Spiral45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1269Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4676Galaxy40 million ly
apartIC 4691Elliptical40 million ly
apartNGC 6580Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 4688Spiral45 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).