NGC 6761
NGC 6761
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
266 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 266 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6761 as it looked roughly 266 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 4876Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4874Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4777Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 4879Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4873Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4808Spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4874Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4777Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 4879Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4873Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4808Spiral37 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).