NGC 6038
NGC 6038
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
437 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
154k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 437 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6038 as it looked roughly 437 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 1208Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 6119Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6120Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6108Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6112Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 6107Elliptical30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6119Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6120Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6108Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6112Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 6107Elliptical30 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).