NGC 6887
NGC 6887
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
127 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 127 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6887 as it looked roughly 127 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 6889Barred spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 6870Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4943Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6861CLenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 6861Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6868Elliptical11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6870Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4943Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6861CLenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 6861Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 6868Elliptical11 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).