NGC 6686
NGC 6686
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
329 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 329 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6686 as it looked roughly 329 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
IC 4772Elliptical1.9 million ly
apartNGC 6663Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6685Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 6657Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6640Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 6612Galaxy46 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6663Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6685Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 6657Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 6640Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 6612Galaxy46 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).