NGC 6951
NGC 6951
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
66 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 66 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6951 as it looked roughly 66 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 6643Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 6538Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 6412Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4660Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1254Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6395Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6538Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 6412Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4660Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1254Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6395Barred spiral22 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).