NGC 6670A
NGC 6670A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
406 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 406 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6670A as it looked roughly 406 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 6670BSpiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 6597Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 4708Galaxy30 million ly
apartNGC 6601Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 6609Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 6592Elliptical36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6597Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 4708Galaxy30 million ly
apartNGC 6601Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 6609Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 6592Elliptical36 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).