NGC 6740
NGC 6740
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6740 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 6710Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 6700Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6697Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 6660Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 6680Galaxy30 million ly
apartNGC 6658Lenticular30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6700Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6697Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 6660Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 6680Galaxy30 million ly
apartNGC 6658Lenticular30 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).