NGC 6566
NGC 6566
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
247 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 247 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6566 as it looked roughly 247 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 1286Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6532Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6449Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6524Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 6691Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 6711Barred spiral44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6532Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6449Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6524Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 6691Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 6711Barred spiral44 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).