NGC 6985
NGC 6985
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
261 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 261 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6985 as it looked roughly 261 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
IC 1331Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 6985AGalaxy11 million ly
apartNGC 6898Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6897Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6968Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 1324Lenticular32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6985AGalaxy11 million ly
apartNGC 6898Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6897Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6968Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 1324Lenticular32 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).