NGC 6640
NGC 6640
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
319 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 319 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6640 as it looked roughly 319 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 6657Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 6612Galaxy26 million ly
apartNGC 6575Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 1279Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1277Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 6663Spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6612Galaxy26 million ly
apartNGC 6575Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 1279Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1277Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 6663Spiral33 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).