NGC 6935
NGC 6935
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
215 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 215 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6935 as it looked roughly 215 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 6937Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apartNGC 6984Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 5002Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 5001Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 6982Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4995Lenticular14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6984Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 5002Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 5001Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 6982Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4995Lenticular14 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).