NGC 6768
NGC 6768
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
260 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 260 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6768 as it looked roughly 260 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 6806Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6794Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6805Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 4873Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 4808Spiral33 million ly
apartIC 4874Spiral36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6794Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6805Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 4873Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 4808Spiral33 million ly
apartIC 4874Spiral36 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).