NGC 6928
NGC 6928
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
220 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
133k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 220 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6928 as it looked roughly 220 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 6930Barred spiral1.7 million ly
apartNGC 6917Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apartNGC 6927Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 6956Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6927AElliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 6944Elliptical17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6917Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apartNGC 6927Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 6956Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6927AElliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 6944Elliptical17 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).