NGC 6861B
NGC 6861B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
132 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
46k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 132 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6861B as it looked roughly 132 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 6861Elliptical990,000 ly
apartNGC 6868Elliptical1.5 million ly
apartIC 4943Elliptical3.3 million ly
apartNGC 6870Spiral3.9 million ly
apartNGC 6861CLenticular9.9 million ly
apartNGC 6909Elliptical10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6868Elliptical1.5 million ly
apartIC 4943Elliptical3.3 million ly
apartNGC 6870Spiral3.9 million ly
apartNGC 6861CLenticular9.9 million ly
apartNGC 6909Elliptical10 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).