NGC 6835
NGC 6835
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
76 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 76 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6835 as it looked roughly 76 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 6836Spiral300,000 ly
apartNGC 6814Spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 6821Spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 5078Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7077Elliptical38 million ly
apartNGC 7180Elliptical40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6814Spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 6821Spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 5078Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7077Elliptical38 million ly
apartNGC 7180Elliptical40 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).