NGC 6135
NGC 6135
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
170 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 170 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6135 as it looked roughly 170 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 6123Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 1110Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6292Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6310Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6190Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6262Elliptical29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1110Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6292Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6310Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6190Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6262Elliptical29 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).