NGC 6900
NGC 6900
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
239 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 239 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6900 as it looked roughly 239 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 1320Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6915Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 6922Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6865Lenticular35 million ly
apartNGC 6906Barred spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 6901Barred spiral39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6915Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 6922Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6865Lenticular35 million ly
apartNGC 6906Barred spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 6901Barred spiral39 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).