NGC 6926
NGC 6926
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
277 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 277 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6926 as it looked roughly 277 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 6929Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 6922Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6915Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6941Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6977Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6978Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6922Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6915Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6941Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6977Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6978Barred spiral31 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).