NGC 6684A
NGC 6684A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Irregular
type · IB
47 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
27k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 47 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6684A as it looked roughly 47 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 6673Elliptical6.5 million ly
apartNGC 6300Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6221Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6215Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 5028Irregular31 million ly
apartNGC 7462Barred spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6300Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6221Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6215Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 5028Irregular31 million ly
apartNGC 7462Barred spiral35 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).