NGC 6636 NED02
NGC 6636 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
210 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 210 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6636 NED02 as it looked roughly 210 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 6510Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6701Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6232Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 1241Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 6247Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 6361Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6701Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6232Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 1241Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 6247Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 6361Barred spiral40 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).