NGC 6924
NGC 6924
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
282 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
139k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 282 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6924 as it looked roughly 282 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 6936Elliptical8.5 million ly
apartNGC 6993Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6947Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 5086Elliptical44 million ly
apartIC 1321Barred spiral47 million ly
apartNGC 6841Elliptical50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6993Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6947Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 5086Elliptical44 million ly
apartIC 1321Barred spiral47 million ly
apartNGC 6841Elliptical50 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).