NGC 6794
NGC 6794
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
280 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 280 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6794 as it looked roughly 280 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 6805Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6806Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6768Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 4931Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 6849Elliptical37 million ly
apartIC 4873Barred spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6806Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6768Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 4931Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 6849Elliptical37 million ly
apartIC 4873Barred spiral37 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).