NGC 6876A
NGC 6876A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6876A as it looked roughly 192 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 4929Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apartIC 4992Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 6877Elliptical6.0 million ly
apartIC 4967Elliptical6.0 million ly
apartIC 4892Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apartIC 4899Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4992Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 6877Elliptical6.0 million ly
apartIC 4967Elliptical6.0 million ly
apartIC 4892Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apartIC 4899Barred spiral7.9 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).