NGC 6736
NGC 6736
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6736 as it looked roughly 200 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 6734Elliptical700,000 ly
apartNGC 6718Barred spiral4.1 million ly
apartIC 4847Lenticular6.1 million ly
apartIC 4813Galaxy6.6 million ly
apartIC 4790Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartIC 4801Lenticular7.6 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6718Barred spiral4.1 million ly
apartIC 4847Lenticular6.1 million ly
apartIC 4813Galaxy6.6 million ly
apartIC 4790Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartIC 4801Lenticular7.6 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).