NGC 6870
NGC 6870
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
128 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 128 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6870 as it looked roughly 128 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 4943Elliptical1.4 million ly
apartNGC 6861Elliptical2.9 million ly
apartNGC 6868Elliptical3.7 million ly
apartNGC 6861BLenticular3.9 million ly
apartNGC 6861CLenticular6.5 million ly
apartNGC 6909Elliptical7.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6861Elliptical2.9 million ly
apartNGC 6868Elliptical3.7 million ly
apartNGC 6861BLenticular3.9 million ly
apartNGC 6861CLenticular6.5 million ly
apartNGC 6909Elliptical7.3 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).