NGC 6580
NGC 6580
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
272 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 272 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6580 as it looked roughly 272 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 6616Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6513Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 6527Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1269Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 6577Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 6576Lenticular33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6513Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 6527Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1269Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 6577Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 6576Lenticular33 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).